Far better it is for you to say: I am a sinner, than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
-Fulton J. Sheen
"Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary"
Quotations
Religion
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
-Philip Pullman
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
-Dwight Lyman Moody
All the religions of the world may be good and true. But situated as we are, our own religion is the best for us.
-D. S. Sarma
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
-Charles H. Spurgeon
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
The whole world is so-called religious...barring a few intellectuals. But then
where does all the anger, miseries, worries, envy, hatred and failure come from?
... Because, conquering all these feelings is only religiousness.
-Deep Trivedi
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
-Mahatma Gandhi
