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We should not insist on absolute perfection of the gospel in our fellow Christians, however we may strive for it ourselves.
John Calvin1509–1564Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551), Page 21.
- Christianity
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men, — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5
- Family
- Women
These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğanborn 1954“PM Erdogan: The Term “Moderate Islam” Is Ugly And Offensive; There Is No Moderate Islam; Islam Is Islam”, Memri Turkish Media Blog (August 21, 2007)
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 551–553
- God
- Love
Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible for a moral code: it advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because: we need more atheists — and nothin’ will get you there faster than readin’ the damn Bible.
Penn Jilletteborn 1955“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?” Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2 episode 6 (6 May 2004)
- Anti-Religion
- Atheism
Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls — but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up?
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Zooey (1957)
- Christianity
Eugene has to stop doing God’s job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977Purple Hibiscus (2003)
- God
It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the pure and sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiva is useless.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Address at the Rameswaram Temple on Real Worship
- Love
The far-from-original point I will try to make now should seem obvious: There is an unsettling similarity between the rituals of the obsessive-compulsive and the rituals of the observantly religious.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957“Circling the Blanket for God”, The Trouble with Testosterone (1997), p. 263
- Anti-Religion
I don’t have much truck with the “religion is the cause of most of our wars” school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015“I create gods all the time—now I think one might exist” (2008)
- War & Peace
Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ!
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Homily of His Holiness John Paul II for the Inauguration of his Pontificate, St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on Sunday, 22 October 1978
- Christianity
- Courage
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Theology
I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Benjamin Vaughan (24 October 1788)
- Virtue
You can know a real Christian when you see him, by his buoyancy.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Twelve Tests of Character (1923)
- Christianity
I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.
Mike Penceborn 1959Vice-presidential acceptance speech, Republican National Convention (20 July 2016)
- Christianity
- Politics