Religion Quotes - Page 9

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

belief is the death of intelligence.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.

But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-