Quotes About Religion

Here is what Owen Meany (and the armadillo) said: "GOD HAS TAKEN YOUR MOTHER. MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT. GOD HAS TAKEN MY HANDS. I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean, make sure they know what you mean!

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-- make sure they know what they mean!

When he finished reading this passage, Pastor Merrill lifted his face to us and cried out, "'I believe; help my unbelief!' Owen Meany helped my 'unbelief,'" my father said. "Compared to Owen Meany, I am an amateur—in my faith," Mr. Merrill said. "Owen was not just a hero to the United States Army—he was my hero," my father said.

How could Owen Meany have known what he "knew"? It's no answer, of course, to believe in accidents, or in coincidences; but is God really a better answer? If God had a hand in what Owen "knew," what a horrible question that poses! For how could God have let that happen to Owen Meany? Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!

Graham Greene

They were running away from the war in Vietnam, or from what their country had become, Edward Bonshaw said. The Iowan reached out to them—he tried to help them—but most of the hippie boys weren't religious types. Like the rooftop dogs, they were lost souls—they were running wild, or they drifted around town like ghosts.

Love is my religion--I could die for it.

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!

Fanatikler rüyalar?nda kendi mezheplerinden olanlara cennet kap?lar?n? açar.

I could be martyr'd for my Religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you.

How come God has to make it so tough for you?" "We must not question His ways," Ignatius said. "Maybe not, but I still don't get it." "The writings of Boethius may give you some insight." "I read Father Keller and Billy Graham in the paper every single day." "Oh, my God!" Ignatius spluttered. "No wonder you are so lost.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

More popular than Jesus More popular than Jesus is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music. Wikipedia

The God of the Christians is a father who is a great deal more concerned about his apples than he is about his children.

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the time to be set free, / From priests' and Doctors' slavery.

He was saying that mixing church and state corrupted the church. He was saying that when one mixes religion and politics one gets politics.

More than that, many Puritans believed that if the battle with the Antichrist was commencing, they had to convert the Indians.

Religion is inherently conservative; even one proposing a new God only creates a new order. The question "why" is too deep for science. Science instead believes it can only learn "how" something occurs.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs.