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Quotes About Perspective

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
~ Deepak Chopra
We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
~ Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.
~ Ronald Knox
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
~ P.J. O'Rourke
Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.
~ Rebecca Pippert
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
~ Alan W. Watts
Some things need to be believed to be seen.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.
~ Richard Jeni
All religions are true but none are literal.
~ Joseph Campbell
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
~ Robert Orben
If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.
~ Penn Jillette
I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
~ Denis Diderot
All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.
~ Richard Dawkins
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
~ George Coyne
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
~ David Eagleman
It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
~ Billy Connolly
The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.
~ Peter McWilliams
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
~ Oscar Wilde
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.
~ Bill Maher
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
~ Quentin Crisp