Religion Quotes

• "There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image."
  By: Oscar Romero
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• "Obviously, marriage is in trouble, and yet the greatest threat to marriage comes not from homosexuals. It comes from heterosexuals who find it difficult to remain married to one another."
  By: Rev. Jim Baker of Westminster Presbyterian
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• "Some Christians believe the Bible has defined God. Other Christians believe the sacred teaching of their church has defined God. Both have inevitably been forced to distort the reality and the mystery of God to come to those conclusions."
  By: Bishop John Shelby Spong
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• "As optimism has died, human beings increasingly turned either to fundamentalist religion or to secular materialism in the constant search for meaning."
  By: Bishop John Shelby Spong
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• "Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water."
  By: Hebrews 10:22, Bible
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• "All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely. The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all."
  By: H. L. Mencken
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• "If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it�the life of that man is one long sin against mankind."
  By: William Clifford
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• "'And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways,' Yossarian continued. 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?"
  By: Joseph Heller, Catch22
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• "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can."
  By: Norman Mailer
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• "Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God."
  By: Jean Rostand
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• "Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?"
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven."
  By: Milton
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• "'And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways,' Yossarian continued. 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?'"
  By: Joseph Heller, Catch22
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• "The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the...passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life."
  By: Bertrand Russell
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• "religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
  By: Stendhal
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