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One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.
-Jewish Folk Saying
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A maker of idols is never an idolater.
-Chinese Proverb
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He who is near the Church is often far from God.
-Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
-Proverb
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
-Abigail Adams
In a letter to John Quincy Adams, May 5, 1816
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The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
-John Adams
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
-John Adams
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
-Fred A. Allen
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What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
-Robert Altman
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
-Kingsley Amis
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
-Thomas Aquinas
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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
-Louis Aragon
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
-Matthew Arnold
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
-Daisy Ashford
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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
-Brooks Atkinson
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Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
-W. H. Auden
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
-Jane Austen
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
-Jane Austen
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language -- so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
-Bhagavad Gita
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The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
-Bible
Psalm 27: 1
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Books about Religion
