Quotes tagged "religion"
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
"God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drove over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conductive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Friends! Friends! Surely you're not going to eat before we say robot grace. In the name of all that is good and logical, we give thanks for the chemical energy we are about to absorb. To quote the prophet Jer-a-matic, one zero zero zero one zero one zero one zero one zero one ... zero zero one zero one one zero zero one...two. Amen.
The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.