Beliefs and Catechism Lessons
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion and acquired a new one, check your pulse.
You may be dead.
(Frank) Gelett Burgess
Depairing of institutional religion & seeking the spiritual.
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people. — Barbara Harrison
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark
on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell
Every day, people are straying away from the Church
and going back to God. — Lenny Bruce
I do not believe in political movements.
I believe in personal movement,
that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself
is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change -
within himself, not on the outside.
— Joseph Brodsky
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey. — Stephen Covey
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees
with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.
— Buddha, The "Enlightened One"
Therefore, let those people who are caught up
in the day to day business of asserting themselves,
keep quiet about the status of the saints.
They add and subtract from their glory as it suits their fancy
and not as it pleases eternal Truth. — Thomas à Kempis
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
— George W. Foote
I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. — Albert Einstein
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a Sunday afternoon. — Susan Ertz
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
— Chapman Cohen
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature,
and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. — Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained
by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
If God made us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. — Voltaire
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest
are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme. — Bernard Katz
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
— Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. — Delos B. McKown
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The last refuge of scoundrels is not patriotism (although many are found there!) but religion.
— Sunday Sermon
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. — Albert Einstein
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