“You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.” MayUniverseReligiousCatholicBackgroundsBuddhistNot InterestedProtestantsBaptists Author:Rick Warren
“I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.” IfsTryingBelievePersonsSchoolUniversePrayerAtheismDesignWake UpIntelligentCatholicPositive AtheismHospitalsNot InterestedSecularIntelligent DesignMergersPrayer In School Author:Katha Pollitt
“But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.” MenFactsUniversePerfectConsciousnessHe ManPureCatholicFinalsPainfulWitConsistencyHumoristsInconsistencyPuritanism Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.” StatesFormLawUniverseBeliefNaturalClearCatholicRemainsStrategyLibertarianDefinedTribesPaganNatural LawBarbarismMystiqueRhetoricalBernard ShawRhetorical Strategies Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.” IfsBelieveChristianUniverseChallengesExistenceAcceptingCatholicAshamedInvitesAbidingCenter Of The UniverseAbiding Love Author:Jennifer Morse
“I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.” BelieveMayUniversePassionReligiousPowerfulBehindsEmptyCatholicAgentsBuddhistSubstanceVisualsAweRitualProvocativeIncenseBereftReligious Rituals Author:David Bowie
“I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.” BelieveHardHandsChristianHumanityUniverseI BelieveProcessAbilitySeeingOceanRainInfiniteCatholicI Believe InForestsHard TimesBelieve In GodUnnaturalElitistI Believe In GodFrame Of ReferenceInfinite Universe Book:A Drink Before The War Source: A Drink Before The War
“I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)” MindHeartDoeHas BeensSaidEarthChristianMovingUniverseWishChurchSunHolyCatholicErrorsContraryFaithfulCurseRemoveSuspectsSincereJudgedSuspicionCentreCatholic ChurchHeresySectsDetestEminenceVehementSincere Heart Author:Galileo Galilei
“Why should we believe in God? — We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred.” KnowsWantShouldBelieveMeanEndsCountryChristianHateFightingUniverseLove IsViewsChristianityEnemyPrinciplesKnow HowWorstRevolutionHatredCatholicJewNeighborContraryPityConquerBelieve In GodWorst EnemyChristian Love Author:Gerald Burton Winrod
“I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”” ThinkingHeartLawUniverseSpeakPrayerSimpleLordBreakMorningPrayingPleaseCatholicEvery MorningI PrayConvenienceAmen Author:Emo Philips