We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. -- Bertrand Russell The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. -- Sir Richard Francis Burton All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. -- Voltaire Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. -- Isaac Asimov It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. -- Jane Austen As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. -- Mahatma Gandhi If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. -- George Bernard Shaw Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. -- Clarence Darrow The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. -- Matthew Arnold I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. -- Carl Sandburg Going to church doesn't make you a faithful person any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. -- Anonymous I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. -- Mother Teresa If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. -- Meister Eckhart Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism. John Haynes Holmes, American clergyman and reformer (1879-1964) The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the saint his own heaven by doing right. -- Mary Baker Eddy The best way to know God is to love many things. -- Vincent Van Gogh Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Religion is the past. Faith is the future. -- Bill Purdin Gluttony Greed Sloth Envy Rath Pride Lust -- St. Thomas Aquinas' "Seven Deadly Sins" We have 35 million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. -- Anonymous When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, feel bad, and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln |