Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

Ken Ford

Hopefully, these pictures and the great words from people who really have a love for Jesus will strengthen thousands of Christians in their faith.

William Wilberforce

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

William Wilberforce

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce

If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go

Anton LaVey

The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins' as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

Anton LaVey

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

Anton LaVey

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Robert Orr

He doesn't shy away from issues of importance. I think he thinks through things and presents what he feels is a legitimate Christian understanding, not that he says it's the only one.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William James

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

Wallace Stevens

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

Werner Heisenberg

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Salman Rushdie

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

William Cowper

Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

William Cowper

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Rob Bell

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Mary Baker Eddy

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Pythagoras

Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

Camille Paglia

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

David Harsanyi

Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.

Dan Barker

Please clean up after your dogma.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up.

Adolf Hitler

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.