Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
August 26, 2012
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
June 10, 2012
I wasn't brought up in any particular religion or spiritual tradition, and I believe this was an advantage in a certain way. I have always felt free to explore possibilities, without being too much encumbered by those terrible burdens of dogmatically informed fear and guilt that have so badly affected many people. ~ Annie Lennox
March 02, 2012
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers. ~ Dave Barry
November 06, 2011
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ~ Anais Nin
October 23, 2011
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. ~ Paul Tillich
October 16, 2011
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ~ Abraham Lincoln
September 04, 2011
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~ Richard Francis Burton
July 24, 2011
Do not believe in anything simply because you heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observations and analysis, when you find anything with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~ Buddha
July 06, 2011
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
June 22, 2011
At one time or another I have insulted everybody and I am proud of that. Folks, let me sum it up for you: I think religion is bad, and drugs are good. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun and young people should be discouraged from voting. I think stereotypes are true, abstinence is a perversion, Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's, and there is nothing sexy about being old or pregnant. I think 9-11 changed nothing, and if I had known the onset of war would add a hundred points onto Bush's I.Q., I would have started one. I think pornography stops rape, I think AIDS ribbons are stupid, and a flag burning makes me feel patriotic. I think death is not the worst thing that can happen. I think people have too much self-esteem, and being drunk is funny. I think children are not innocent, God doesn't write books, and Jesus wasn't a republican. I am for mad cow disease, and against suing tobacco companies. I think girls hate each other, no doesn't always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women's sports are boring, and the Olympics are gay. We'll be on for another six weeks here on ABC... ~ Bill Maher, prior to ABC cancelling his show
June 19, 2011
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. ~ Seneca
June 12, 2011
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ~ Mark Twain
May 29, 2011
Religion is truly inspirational. After all, it has be inspiring fear and hatred for centuries. ~ Mike Hutchinson
April 17, 2011
The Buddha didn't describe his awakening as an awakening to some absolute truth or absolute reality, perhaps comparable to God as we would find in other religious traditions. Instead, what he woke up to is the unfolding of the phenomenal world itself. This I think is what is so radical in the Buddha’s understanding of spiritual experience. It doesn’t have to do with gaining some privileged access to a higher truth that somehow transcends the messiness of everyday life. Rather, his awakening was an awakening to the flux and the flow, the pain, the beauty, the tragedy, and the joy of life itself. ~ Stephen Batchelor (from "Awakening to Life, Awakening to Death")
March 27, 2011
Everyone can understand that being human, you want a happy life, a happy family, to be a happy individual. But material things will not provide you with genuine inner peace or inner happiness. Human values are essential. We must find a way to present basic human values to everyone—and present them not as religious matters but as secular ethics that are essential whether you are religious or not. ~ The Dalai Lama, (from "Ethics for a Secular Millennium")
February 27, 2010
People will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
January 30, 2011
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. ~ Yasir Arafat, on going to war over religion
January 16, 2011
Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there. ~ Unknown
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