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It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?

I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

Jesus was a crackpot.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.