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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
Edward Abbey1927–1989Abbey’s Road (1979)
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
- Anti-Religion
- Comedy
To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan.
Carlo Acutis1991–2006Short Biography
- Christianity
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved — the Cross.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Thomas Jefferson (3 September 1816)
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 112 (9 July 1711)
- Work
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
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2: Religion
- Morality
The symbols of religion are ciphers of which the key is to be found in moral experience. It is in vain we pore over the ciphers unless we possess the key.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2: Religion
- Morality
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts, rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Character
Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn’t belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xvi
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Speech at the NAWSA convention (1896) against a resolution disavowing Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible; in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. IV (1902)
- God
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Introduction to Ward’s English Poets (1880)
- Poetry
The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Dover Beach (1867)In context
- Faith
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Nobody said when.
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 89)
- Comedy
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
W. H. Auden1907–1973A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970), “Friday, Good”
- Christianity
- Poetry