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Religious topoi When life is at its darkest that is when you will see all of heaven's stars. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua On the Day of Judgment, when men stand before their Lord, they will not be questioned as to their education and the degree of their culture — rather will they be examined as to their good deeds. the Baha'i Writings Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. H.W. Longfellow The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. Henry Ward Beecher Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. Fenelon Do as you would be done by is the surest method I know of pleasing. Lord Chesterfield The serene silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the spirit of God. Pascal Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up their own. Edmund Burke Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H.G. Wells Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic without looking to see whether the seeds move. When you do a good deed, get a receipt — in case heaven is like the IRS. Forbear to judge for we are sinners all. Shakespeare It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. Mencken The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. Robert Louis Stevenson If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed. And if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go. Stop abortion, start castration! Ken Rickard A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization. Tom Clancy If men could have babies, abortion would be a sacrament. Lee Ann Einert Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Dante Hope springs eternal from the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest. Alexander Pope All the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person. Emerson What is evil in a person when controlled can be channeled to good ends. Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. Mark Twain If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? Harry Shearer Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. Santayana Atheism is a non-prophet organization. Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married. George Bernard Shaw Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Howell Maurice Forgy One world at a time, one world at a time. Henry Thoreau The best way to lose weight is to develop a belief in some religion that doesn't allow any fun. Gregory Nunn Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Alfred Tennyson Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity. John Donne The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. W.R. Inge For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. Isaac Watts To all things clergic I am allergic. Alexander Woollcott I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face. Rev. William Archibald Spooner The meek may inherit the earth. The rest of us inherit the mortgage. Noah Goldstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot Pray (n) - To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy. Ambrose Bierce If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Voltaire There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw My troubles are many, They're as deep as a well. I can swear there ain't no heaven And I pray there ain't no hell. Laura Nyro The righteous promise little and perform much; the wicked promise much and perform little. Babylonian Talmud Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God. William Cowper I tell you this: no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. Jim Morrison If religion has done nothing for your temper, it has done nothing for your soul. Clayton Faith fills the gap between an incomplete proof and the truth. Beth Lamb Symphony with nature is part of the good person's religion. F. H. Hedge Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift The worst sin is dullness. David Read God isn't dead, he is merely unemployed. In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Book of Isaiah Faith - believing in something you know ain't true. Mark Twain Religion is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke Our continual mistake is that we do not concentrate upon the present day, the actual hour, of our life — we live in the past or in the future; we are continually expecting the coming of some special hour when our life shall unfold itself in its full significance. And we do not observe that life is flowing like water through our fingers, sifting like precious grain from a loosely fastened bag. Father Yelchaninox I should like to add one more beatitude to those of the gospels and to say, Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. Mark Rutherford Thou shalt always have joy in the evening if thou hast spent the day well. Thomas a Kempis Help yourself and heaven will help you. French proverb The world is to be cleaned by somebody and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scour and scrub. Henry Ward Beecher Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. Petit-Senn God's life is like that of which we catch a transient glimpse when our life is at its best. Aristotle True, genuine religion is calm in its inquiries, deliberate in its resolves, and steady in its conduct. Abigail Adams A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe In the bible we have insights into truth, beauty and goodness which are eternal. Jan Christian Smuts Sorrow is not immortal. St. Gregory There is only one way to teach virtue, to teach religion. Joseph Joubert Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. 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