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Quotes about religion reflect humanity’s enduring search for meaning, purpose, and the sacred. They express faith, doubt, devotion, and reflection across cultures and traditions. The following collection offers perspectives that invite contemplation on belief and the role it plays in human life.   ◀ Back
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You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegitimate sons, and die.
- James Jones
From Here to Eternity
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If we talk about the living oracles and want to pay respect to them, how shall we do this? Shall we do it by never reading their words-by paying not attention to that which they say? That is a very poor way of doing.

We ought to listen to their words. When we cannot hear their words, we should read them; for they are the words of the authorized servants of God. I feel that there is a great neglect among us in this respect. --CR, 1897, 38, George Q. Cannon (CR is Reports of the General Conferences of the Church)
- John A. Widtsoe
Priesthood and Church Government
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.
- Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
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My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
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Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
- Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
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A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

[...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.

[...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.
- Mark L. Shurtleff
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Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
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Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will
- Belcampo
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Both imaginative Myth, when developed into a system, and intellectualist Scholasticism, when worked out to its completion, are methods by which the fundamental fact of religious experience is, as it were, simply rolled out so thin and flat as to be finally eliminated altogether.
- Rudolf Otto
The Idea of the Holy
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While the culture of manager and therapist does not speak in the language of traditional moralities, it nonetheless proffers a normative order of life, with character ideals, images of the good life, and methods of attaining it. Yet it is an understanding of life generally hostile to older ideas of moral order. Its center is the autonomous individual, presumed able to choose the roles he wil play and the commitments he will make, not on the basis of higher truths but according to the criterion of life-effectiveness as the individual judges it.
- Robert N. Bellah
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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Some sorrows are so large
they cannot be carried
by a single pair of hands...
- Laura Kauffman
Ordinary Things
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Coming from a Hindu family, I struggled immensely with the institutionalized aspects of the faith; staring at the idols often made me feel a sense of intense discomfort.
- Sajal Garg
Glimpses of My Worldview
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Is it not possible that those who invented the devil may have studied divinity in Persia, where the creed obtains that powers of light and darkness, Ormuzd and Ahriman, strive perpetually for mastery of the world Surely, otherwise, they would have remembered that if the devil exists, God must have created him, which in itself is blasphemy, for God can create no evil.
- Rafael Sabatini
Bellarion
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You’re running away from your calling.
Your gift for words is meant for church
and not for that skeptical head of yours.
- Roger Robinson
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I said to my dad, "Are you really a Christian now?"

And he said, "Yes!" and laughed. "I'm your father. I am humanity. I'm everything to everybody."

I didn't say anything after that.

I guess that was my dad's favorite myth, that he was everything to everybody.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
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You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. "

-- Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, p32
- Yuval Noah Harari
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Harmony isn’t a passive state. It’s something you cultivate through alignment - between perception and structure, action and awareness.
- Bob Hoyng
Nothing Becomes
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Curiosity is sacred. But so is stillness. Peace often comes not from understanding but from letting go of the need to understand.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
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Strong, uncontrolled emotions can become a cage. Fear can paralyze. Anger can consume. Jealousy can be blind. In those moments, freedom shrinks — because we no longer choose. The emotion chooses for us.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
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What kind of a moron demands his devotee to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty! What kind of an alcoholic father sends his son to be tortured and nailed on a cross just to prove how much he cares! What kind of a pervert rescues his wife from her abductor only to abandon her, just so his reputation as the ideal king wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman! Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness, nor with the actual creator of the cosmos, even if there is such a thing, at most they reflect the mindset and morality of their time.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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Dogma not Divine, Myth not Holy (Sonnet 2430)

What kind of a moron demands his devotee
to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty!

What kind of an alcoholic father
sends his son to be tortured and nailed
on a cross just to prove how much he cares!

What kind of a pervert rescues his wife
from her abductor only to abandon her,
just so his reputation as the ideal king
wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman!

Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness,
nor with the actual creator of the cosmos,
even if there is such a thing, at most they
reflect the mindset and morality of their time.

I never had any interest
in making a case for or against god,
my struggle is far more real,
against dogma disguised as divine.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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Whatever you think you’re running from, it’s not chasing you. It’s inside you. It always has been.
- Elijah Stepanovich
The Heir of Ash and Thunder
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It’s a gospel of control over caring, power over humility, and judgment over mercy. They won’t fight for the words of Jesus, but they’re profoundly committed to stuff they believe he said.
- John Fugelsang
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
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Ours is in reality an Abstract Value society--one in which things are not appreciated for what they are so much as for what they represent.
- Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet
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You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegitimate sons, and die.
- James Jones
From Here to Eternity
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If we talk about the living oracles and want to pay respect to them, how shall we do this? Shall we do it by never reading their words-by paying not attention to that which they say? That is a very poor way of doing.

We ought to listen to their words. When we cannot hear their words, we should read them; for they are the words of the authorized servants of God. I feel that there is a great neglect among us in this respect. --CR, 1897, 38, George Q. Cannon (CR is Reports of the General Conferences of the Church)
- John A. Widtsoe
Priesthood and Church Government
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.
- Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
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My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
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Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
- Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
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A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

[...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.

[...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.
- Mark L. Shurtleff
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Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
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Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will
- Belcampo
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Both imaginative Myth, when developed into a system, and intellectualist Scholasticism, when worked out to its completion, are methods by which the fundamental fact of religious experience is, as it were, simply rolled out so thin and flat as to be finally eliminated altogether.
- Rudolf Otto
The Idea of the Holy
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While the culture of manager and therapist does not speak in the language of traditional moralities, it nonetheless proffers a normative order of life, with character ideals, images of the good life, and methods of attaining it. Yet it is an understanding of life generally hostile to older ideas of moral order. Its center is the autonomous individual, presumed able to choose the roles he wil play and the commitments he will make, not on the basis of higher truths but according to the criterion of life-effectiveness as the individual judges it.
- Robert N. Bellah
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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Some sorrows are so large
they cannot be carried
by a single pair of hands...
- Laura Kauffman
Ordinary Things
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Coming from a Hindu family, I struggled immensely with the institutionalized aspects of the faith; staring at the idols often made me feel a sense of intense discomfort.
- Sajal Garg
Glimpses of My Worldview
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Is it not possible that those who invented the devil may have studied divinity in Persia, where the creed obtains that powers of light and darkness, Ormuzd and Ahriman, strive perpetually for mastery of the world Surely, otherwise, they would have remembered that if the devil exists, God must have created him, which in itself is blasphemy, for God can create no evil.
- Rafael Sabatini
Bellarion
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You’re running away from your calling.
Your gift for words is meant for church
and not for that skeptical head of yours.
- Roger Robinson
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I said to my dad, "Are you really a Christian now?"

And he said, "Yes!" and laughed. "I'm your father. I am humanity. I'm everything to everybody."

I didn't say anything after that.

I guess that was my dad's favorite myth, that he was everything to everybody.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
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You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. "

-- Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, p32
- Yuval Noah Harari
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Harmony isn’t a passive state. It’s something you cultivate through alignment - between perception and structure, action and awareness.
- Bob Hoyng
Nothing Becomes
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Curiosity is sacred. But so is stillness. Peace often comes not from understanding but from letting go of the need to understand.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
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Strong, uncontrolled emotions can become a cage. Fear can paralyze. Anger can consume. Jealousy can be blind. In those moments, freedom shrinks — because we no longer choose. The emotion chooses for us.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What kind of a moron demands his devotee to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty! What kind of an alcoholic father sends his son to be tortured and nailed on a cross just to prove how much he cares! What kind of a pervert rescues his wife from her abductor only to abandon her, just so his reputation as the ideal king wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman! Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness, nor with the actual creator of the cosmos, even if there is such a thing, at most they reflect the mindset and morality of their time.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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Dogma not Divine, Myth not Holy (Sonnet 2430)

What kind of a moron demands his devotee
to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty!

What kind of an alcoholic father
sends his son to be tortured and nailed
on a cross just to prove how much he cares!

What kind of a pervert rescues his wife
from her abductor only to abandon her,
just so his reputation as the ideal king
wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman!

Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness,
nor with the actual creator of the cosmos,
even if there is such a thing, at most they
reflect the mindset and morality of their time.

I never had any interest
in making a case for or against god,
my struggle is far more real,
against dogma disguised as divine.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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Whatever you think you’re running from, it’s not chasing you. It’s inside you. It always has been.
- Elijah Stepanovich
The Heir of Ash and Thunder
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It’s a gospel of control over caring, power over humility, and judgment over mercy. They won’t fight for the words of Jesus, but they’re profoundly committed to stuff they believe he said.
- John Fugelsang
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
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Ours is in reality an Abstract Value society--one in which things are not appreciated for what they are so much as for what they represent.
- Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet
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You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegitimate sons, and die.
- James Jones
From Here to Eternity
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If we talk about the living oracles and want to pay respect to them, how shall we do this? Shall we do it by never reading their words-by paying not attention to that which they say? That is a very poor way of doing.

We ought to listen to their words. When we cannot hear their words, we should read them; for they are the words of the authorized servants of God. I feel that there is a great neglect among us in this respect. --CR, 1897, 38, George Q. Cannon (CR is Reports of the General Conferences of the Church)
- John A. Widtsoe
Priesthood and Church Government
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.
- Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
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My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
- Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
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Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
- Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
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A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

[...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.

[...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.
- Mark L. Shurtleff
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Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
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Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will
- Belcampo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Both imaginative Myth, when developed into a system, and intellectualist Scholasticism, when worked out to its completion, are methods by which the fundamental fact of religious experience is, as it were, simply rolled out so thin and flat as to be finally eliminated altogether.
- Rudolf Otto
The Idea of the Holy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While the culture of manager and therapist does not speak in the language of traditional moralities, it nonetheless proffers a normative order of life, with character ideals, images of the good life, and methods of attaining it. Yet it is an understanding of life generally hostile to older ideas of moral order. Its center is the autonomous individual, presumed able to choose the roles he wil play and the commitments he will make, not on the basis of higher truths but according to the criterion of life-effectiveness as the individual judges it.
- Robert N. Bellah
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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Some sorrows are so large
they cannot be carried
by a single pair of hands...
- Laura Kauffman
Ordinary Things
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Coming from a Hindu family, I struggled immensely with the institutionalized aspects of the faith; staring at the idols often made me feel a sense of intense discomfort.
- Sajal Garg
Glimpses of My Worldview
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Is it not possible that those who invented the devil may have studied divinity in Persia, where the creed obtains that powers of light and darkness, Ormuzd and Ahriman, strive perpetually for mastery of the world Surely, otherwise, they would have remembered that if the devil exists, God must have created him, which in itself is blasphemy, for God can create no evil.
- Rafael Sabatini
Bellarion
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You’re running away from your calling.
Your gift for words is meant for church
and not for that skeptical head of yours.
- Roger Robinson
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I said to my dad, "Are you really a Christian now?"

And he said, "Yes!" and laughed. "I'm your father. I am humanity. I'm everything to everybody."

I didn't say anything after that.

I guess that was my dad's favorite myth, that he was everything to everybody.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
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You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. "

-- Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, p32
- Yuval Noah Harari
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Harmony isn’t a passive state. It’s something you cultivate through alignment - between perception and structure, action and awareness.
- Bob Hoyng
Nothing Becomes
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Curiosity is sacred. But so is stillness. Peace often comes not from understanding but from letting go of the need to understand.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Strong, uncontrolled emotions can become a cage. Fear can paralyze. Anger can consume. Jealousy can be blind. In those moments, freedom shrinks — because we no longer choose. The emotion chooses for us.
- Marcus Viveiro
In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What kind of a moron demands his devotee to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty! What kind of an alcoholic father sends his son to be tortured and nailed on a cross just to prove how much he cares! What kind of a pervert rescues his wife from her abductor only to abandon her, just so his reputation as the ideal king wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman! Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness, nor with the actual creator of the cosmos, even if there is such a thing, at most they reflect the mindset and morality of their time.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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Dogma not Divine, Myth not Holy (Sonnet 2430)

What kind of a moron demands his devotee
to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty!

What kind of an alcoholic father
sends his son to be tortured and nailed
on a cross just to prove how much he cares!

What kind of a pervert rescues his wife
from her abductor only to abandon her,
just so his reputation as the ideal king
wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman!

Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness,
nor with the actual creator of the cosmos,
even if there is such a thing, at most they
reflect the mindset and morality of their time.

I never had any interest
in making a case for or against god,
my struggle is far more real,
against dogma disguised as divine.
- Abhijit Naskar
Sonnets From The Mountaintop
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever you think you’re running from, it’s not chasing you. It’s inside you. It always has been.
- Elijah Stepanovich
The Heir of Ash and Thunder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s a gospel of control over caring, power over humility, and judgment over mercy. They won’t fight for the words of Jesus, but they’re profoundly committed to stuff they believe he said.
- John Fugelsang
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ours is in reality an Abstract Value society--one in which things are not appreciated for what they are so much as for what they represent.
- Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet
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