God and Religion

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

Anita Brookner

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

God and Religion

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Anita Brookner

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Voltaire

God and Religion

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"He preaches well that lives well."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote"

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Lloyd-Jones-Martyn

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Jeff Sharlet

God and Religion

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Julian Barnes "Nothing to Be Frightened Of"

God and Religion

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

God and Religion

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

God and Religion

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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

Education

God and Religion

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Walt Whitman "Song Of Myself"

God and Religion

Human

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Fulton John Sheen "On Being Human"

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Lloyd-Jones-Martyn "The Cross"

God and Religion

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Clive Staples Lewis "Mere Christianity"

God and Religion

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Jonathan Swift "Thoughts On Various Subjects"

Friendship and Hostility

God and Religion

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Clive Staples Lewis

God and Religion

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

John Locke

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

God and Religion

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Pierre Corneille "Polyeucte"

God and Religion

Love

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Simone Weil

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Charles Baudelaire "My Heart Laid Bare"

God and Religion

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Edmund Burke

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

God and Religion

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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

God and Religion

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Charles Baudelaire

God and Religion

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Albert Einstein

God and Religion

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

David Goldberg

God and Religion

History and Nations

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

God and Religion

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Voltaire "Letters on England"

God and Religion

History and Nations

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

God and Religion

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

God and Religion

Various

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Voltaire "A Treatise on Toleration"

God and Religion

Normality and Madness

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Francesco Caracciolo

God and Religion

History and Nations

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

God and Religion

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

God and Religion

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

God and Religion

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

Susan B. Anthony

God and Religion

Trust

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Thomas a Kempis "The Imitation of Christ"

God and Religion

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."

Jewish Proverbs

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

Matthew Arnold "Literature and Dogma"

God and Religion

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

Emily Dickinson

God and Religion

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)