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Category: God and Religion

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1. "Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."

George Santayana, "Life of Reason: Reason in Religion"

2. "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Mahatma Gandhi

3. "God's pay is not great, but his retirement plan is out of this world."

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Other categories: Life and Death

4. "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."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Oration and Silence

5. "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

Other categories: Human -:- Manners and Ethics

6. "Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual."

Patrick Buchanan

7. "Christians are made, not born."

Tertullian, "Apologeticus"

8. "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the kitchen makes you a cook."

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9. "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Anita Brookner

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

10. "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Other categories: Success and Fame

11. "Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Anita Brookner

Other categories: Art and Culture

12. "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

13. "He preaches well that lives well."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

14. "A man's god is that for which he lives, for which he is prepared to give his time, his energy, his money, that which stimulates him and rouses him, excites, and enthuses him."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

15. "If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be."

Mahatma Gandhi

16. "No, God isn't dead; Freud and Marx are."

Jeff Sharlet

17. "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him."

Julian Barnes, "Nothing to Be Frightened Of"

18. "If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

19. "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."

Louis Kronenberger, "Company Manners"

20. "My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Oration and Silence -:- Power and Weakness

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21. "Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Education

22. "The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"--cannot hear the music of the spheres."

Albert Einstein

23. "In the faces of men and women I see God."

Walt Whitman, "Song Of Myself"

Other categories: Human

24. "Those who tell us that they deny the existence of God are merely substituting one god for another."

Fulton John Sheen, "On Being Human"

25. "Any man who thinks he deserves heaven is not a Christian. But for any man who knows he deserves hell there is hope."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, "The Cross"

26. "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

27. "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts On Various Subjects"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

28. "Often when I pray I wonder if i am not posting letters to a non-existent address."

Clive Staples Lewis

29. "What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?"

Mahatma Gandhi

30. "To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

John Locke

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

31. "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."

Gloria Steinem, "Moving Beyond Words"

Other categories: Question and Problem

32. "I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself."

Pierre Corneille, "Polyeucte"

Other categories: Love

33. "Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

Simone Weil

Other categories: Life and Death

34. "The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."

Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare"

35. "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity."

Edmund Burke

36. "Everyone has the same God; only people differ."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

37. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Work and Laziness

38. "God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist."

Charles Baudelaire

39. "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Question and Problem

40. "The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth."

David Goldberg

Other categories: History and Nations

41. "There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

42. "Religion differs from magic in that it is not concerned with control or manipulation of the powers confronted. Rather it means submission to, trust in, and adoration of, what is apprehended as the divine nature of ultimate reality."

Joachim Wach , "The Comparative Study of Religions"

Other categories: Power and Weakness

43. "If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Letters on England"

Other categories: History and Nations

44. "God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Other categories: Work and Laziness

45. "We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe."

Miguel de Unamuno, "The Tragic Sense of Life"

Other categories: Various

46. "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy—the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "A Treatise on Toleration"

Other categories: Normality and Madness -:- Science and Technology

47. "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Reinhold Niebuhr, "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Life and Death

48. "In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce."

Francesco Caracciolo

Other categories: History and Nations

49. "God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

50. "Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you.... Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

St. Francis de Sales, "Introduction to the Devout Life"

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