Religion Quotes - Page 11

Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.

Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but i laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM

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Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

If i had it all to do again there would be more bodies.