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O, I’ll leap up to my God!⁠—Who pulls me down?⁠—
See, see, where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Christianity
- Faith
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx1818–1883A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction (1844)
- Anti-Religion
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1901”, p. 67
- Anti-Religion
- God
The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 1, p. 8
- Clever Jabs
I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.
Giorgia Meloniborn 1977Giorgia Meloni: The long climb to Italy’s political summit Euro News (October 22, 2022).
- Christianity
- Women
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?
Herman Melville1819–1891White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 64
- Christianity
I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XVIIIn context
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration⁠—courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Anti-Religion
We must repsect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 1
- Anti-Religion
Puritanism⁠—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State, p. 624
- Anti-Religion
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Christianity
Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Lost (1667), Book IIn context
- Christianity
Though pious, I am none the less a man;
And when a man beholds your heavenly charms,
The heart surrenders, and can think no more.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act III, Scene III, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Love
Heaven forbids, ’tis true, some satisfactions;
But we find means to make things right with Heaven.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Morality
There are false heroes⁠—and false devotees;
And as true heroes never are the ones
Who make much noise about their deeds of honour,
Just so true devotees, whom we should follow,
Are not the ones who make so much vain show.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act I, Scene VI, spoken by CleanteIn context
- Virtue