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| In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. "What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong?" she asked. "I mean, what if - uh - when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say?" Russell was delighted with the question. His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, "Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'" (Bertrand Russell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. (Bill Cosby) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. (Carl Jung) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Sandburg's retelling of Lincoln's attendance at an evangelist rally led by Peter Cartwright in 1846, in response to accusations by Cartwright's followers that he was an "infidel" - Cartwright was his opponent in his race for Congress: (Carl Sandburg) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past! (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July 13, 1925 (Clarence Darrow) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A person has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it, and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. (D. H. Lawrence) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time . . . president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park. (David Halverstam) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist. (Diderot) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. (Don Hirschberg) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923 (Elbert Hubbard) | [▲] | [▼] |
| God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Some keep the Sabbath going to Church, I keep it staying at Home - With a bobolink for a Chorister, And an Orchard, for a Dome. (Emily Dickinson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The Bible is an antique Volume— Written by faded men At the suggestion of Holy Spectres— Subjects—Bethlehem— Eden—the ancient Homestead— Satan—the Brigadier— Judas—the Great Defaulter— David—the Troubador— Sin—a distinguished Precipice Others must resist— Boys that "believe" are very lonesome— Other Boys are "lost"— Had but the Tale a warbling Teller— All the Boys would come— Orpheus' Sermon captivated— It did not condemn— (Emily Dickinson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. (F. Forrester Church) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. The Ethical Philosophy of Life (Felix Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. (Felix Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life. (Felix Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but to something even more familiar than yourself and even more strange than the world. (Frederick Buechner) | [▲] | [▼] |