Religion Quotes - Page 18

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.