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One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.
Bonoborn 1960National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
- Religion
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he’d rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)
- Freedom
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Rumi1207–1273Masnavi II, 1552; 1554 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
- Emotion
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett1942–2024New York Times, letter to the editor (26 August 2009)
- Science
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau1889–1963“Anubis” to the Sphinx, in Act 2 of The Infernal Machine (1932); Collected Works Vol. 5 (1948)
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582First Mansions, Ch. 2: The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
Mother Teresa1910–1997Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373
- Charity
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Joss Whedonborn 1964“Joss Whedon: Atheist & Absurdist”, comments made in a Q&A-session in Australia, while promoting his movie Serenity (2005)
- Atheism
- Morality
Reason is a particle of the Creator’s divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.
Giacomo Casanova1725–1798Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
- Thinking
Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), pp. 33–34
- Atheism
It seems as if Thou didst subject those who love Thee to a severe trial: but it is in order that they may learn, in the depths of that trial, the depths of Thy love.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. “Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject” ¶ 22 & 23
- Love
The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
John Ruskin1819–1900Modern Painters (1843-1860), Volume II, part III, section I, chapter V (1846)
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Wallenberg Lecture (2008)
I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), volume II, chapter VII: “The ‘Origin of Species’”, pages 311-312; letter to Asa Gray (22 May 1860)
- Faith
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.
Edith Stein1891–1942The Ethos of Woman’s Professions (1930)
- Religion