Quotes About Religion

When our food and clothing and housing all born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea of God.

You was always too busy pullen' little girls' pigtails when I give you the Holy Sperit.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God.

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing.

I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach.

Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love; make that's the Holy Sperit - the human spirit - the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of.

In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God.

You should a got a wife," said Joad. "Preacher an' his wife stayed at our place one time. Jehovites they was. Slep' upstairs. Held meetin's in our barnyard. Us kids would listen. That preacher's missus took a god-awful poundin' after ever' night meetin'.

Kutsal ruhun ve Ä°sa'n?n yolunu düÅŸündüm. Ne diye boyuna Allah'tan ya da Ä°sa'dan dem vurup duruyoruz diye düÅŸündüm. Belki, sevdiÄŸim ÅŸey bütün erkekler ve kad?nlard?r, belki kutsal ruh budur. Ä°nsanlar?n ruhudur. Bütün insanlard?r. Belki insanlar?n tek bir ruhu var da herkes teker teker bu ruhun parças?.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

With his white collar he forges god's name on every word he speaks

Do you realize there isn't a Gentile character in here who isn't slavishly in love with some Jew?

The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followed by another - that a coherent matrix has been prepared for this precious self of ours. The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, of what we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.

But now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless anymore, everybody wants their fun.

Always the padre told us that the wine is the blood of Christ and it's Him you are drinking from the cup, His life on your lips. But the padre was wrong - blood is not life, water is

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

It is most difficult in my mind, to seperate success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His." Supposedly said when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics.)

Without the Holy Bible, how can we believe in God?

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.