Quotes
Quotes about Art
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
There are things you would love to hear but will never hear fromthe person you want to hear them from, but don't be deaf to the personwho says it with his heart.
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.
The church is the great lost and found department.
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
