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I don’t want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Daily Telegraph interview (2006)
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 46. (Usbek writing to Rhedi)
- Clever Jabs
It is characteristic of theistic “tolerance” that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
Emma Goldman1869–1940The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)
- Anti-Religion
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 6
- Anti-Religion
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 6
- Comedy
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957), Angels
What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1933), Epilogue, p. 241
- Christianity
Pascal proves nothing in favour of Religion, unless that a man of genius may be foolish on some subjects, and is but a child, when he is weak enough to listen to his prejudices.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 167
- Anti-Religion
- Clever Jabs
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)
- God
Christ is with us until the world’s end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
William Tyndale1494–1536The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
- Christianity
- Courage
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. “Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject” ¶ 26 & 27
- Fear
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.
JAJoan of Arc1412–1431From the trial transcript, as quoted in The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994)
- Christianity
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Library of Babel” (1941)
- Hope
If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Letter to Mme. N. D. Fonvisin (1854), in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends (1914), trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Letter XXI, p. 71
It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Thirteenth Revelation, ch. 27
- Hope