faith/religious quotes prompts
All of the quotes below are seen at ninebillion.
"When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place." (Pearl S. Buck)
"You'll know when you've found it because you'll feel it when they take it away."
"While wizards don't believe in gods, they know for a fact that gods believe in gods."
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
"Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause."
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
"I walked through fire and I didn't get burned."
"She could've lived to become a god...but it was more important to her that she die a human."
"If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
"When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. He changes you."
"They that worship God merely for Fear would worship the Devil too, if he appear."
"An apology for the Devil; it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
"Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, "Is it true?" and if the answer matters, you've got your answer."
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
"It's a logical assumption that, if you are told something enough times, or if you see something often enough, eventually it becomes incorporated into who and what you are."
"Scepticism is the beginning of Faith."
"When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly."
"Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to."
"Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it."
"We lie down in the fields and leave behind the corpses of angels."
"Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die."
"I am the song that sings the bird... I am the word that speaks the man."