Religion(62)

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
George Bernard Shaw

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
George Bernard Shaw

"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."
Frank Sinatra

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No.""
Margaret Smith

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

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual."
Paul Tournier

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
Desmond Tutu

"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
Mark Twain