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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heart
- Science
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen Kingborn 1947
All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people⁠—the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Life’s Handicap (1891)
To those who follow the Way there is neither black nor white, Hind nor Bhotiyal. We be all souls seeking escape.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Kim (1901), Chapter XIIIn context
- Race
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)
- Truth & Lies
The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.
LLLynn Lavner
- Christianity
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
Our faiths are similar — it’s merely our religions that may differ.
Stan Lee1922–2018“Unlikely Saints: Stan Lee, Soupy Sales and the Golden Rule” by Peter M. Wallace, The Huffington Post (10 August 2010)
- Faith
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first⁠—rock’n’roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon1940–1980
- Christianity
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Is Theology Poetry?” (1945)
- Christianity
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Christianity
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963God in the Dock (1994) p. 101.
- Christianity
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The World’s Last Night
- Christianity
‘You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,’ said Aslan. ‘And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan to Caspian, in Ch. 15: Aslan Makes A Door In The Air
- Christianity
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Christianity