#religion

Most religions do not make men better, only warier. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#make #men #most #only #religions

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#becomes #get #help #how #i

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#believe #big #big enough #each #enough

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. ↗

— Gene Clark

#just #per #realisation #religion #zen

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#finding #giving #happiness #into #lives

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#know #literature #little #much #our

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#brought #cereal #controversial #family #family planning

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

#believe #classes #highly #influential #intellectual

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#angle #depends #each #going #guy

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal