Quotes on Religion

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.