All Quotes By Tag: Religion

“After further discussion it was settled that he was to have the upper berth, the old man the lower, and the boy the couch. The Reverend Mr. Upton seemed disappointed. He had played the role of martyr so long he resented seeing any one else in the part.”

“La Iglesia de Roma no perdió nunca la esperanza de una reconciliación con sus ovejas descarriadas. Esperaba el regreso del hijo pródigo y difícilmente podía buscar esa reconciliación lanzando un ataque propagandístico que ofendiera aún más a aquellos cuya lealtad se quiere recobrar.”

“Unlike wealth, poverty of intellect is equally distributed between the sexes and among the races.”

“Logic dictates that if you believe in one, you have to reconcile the existence of the other.”

“The third of the biblical Ten Commandments instructs humans never to make wrongful use of the name of God. People tend to understand this in a childish way, as a prohibition on uttering the explicit name of God (as in the famous Monty Python sketch ‘If you say Jehovah…’). Perhaps the deeper meaning of this commandment is that we should never use the name of God to justify our political interests, our economic ambitions, or our personal hatreds. As a resident of the Middle East I am keenly aware how often people break this commandment. The world would be a much better place if we followed it more devotedly. You want to wage war on your neighbours and steal their land? Leave God out of it, and find yourself some other excuse.”

“A Christian may be a capitalist as easily as a socialist, and even though a few things Jesus said smack of downright communism, during the Cold War good American capitalists went on reading the Sermon on the Mount without taking much notice.”

“A simple act of deviating from the set moral standard established by the moral lawgiver is an offense, suffice to make us culpable.”

“Over the years I’ve found it much more helpful to follow the advice of Sister Liebert and seek to treat each young person as a teacher from God, someone God has placed in my life in order to help me grow in faith. When I encounter a young person, I find it much more helpful to think that she (or he) may be the only Jesus I’ll ever know. Perhaps by seeking to encounter the presence of Christ in young people, we’ll find ourselves better able to see them, hear them, feel compassion for them, and respond in kindness.”

“E se eu te dissesse que ele é um deus?O velho abanou a cabeça. Já não acredito em nada disso. Deixei de acreditar há anos. Onde os homens não conseguem viver, os deuses não têm melhor sorte. Vais ver. É melhor estar sozinho.”

“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.”

“If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him.”

“The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.”

“Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.”

“Was this humanity? Was this nobility? Was this the Christian glory that presumed to hold itself above the heathen Turk? To suffer innocents be sacrificed on an altar of corruption, merely that a lofty family be spared discomfiture? Oh, this was tenfold more abominable than the crime itself, that high authority should wink at it!”

“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition’s arms.”