“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” MadeLyingReligionSocialChurchSinChristianityTasksEmptyLipsLawyerCrueltyMade ItHypocrisySinnerAvariceCloaksRiteMisersImmunityDeferenceLip Service Book:Views and Opinions Source: Views and Opinions
“The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.” WorldReligionChallengesTrumpLipsSolitaryThunderMonkPaganSlumberDauntless Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ... Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...
“The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.” MenMayReligionOrderSubjectsProudPrayingCreaturesWorshipLipsSubmitInteriorsCeremonyExteriorProud Man Author:Blaise Pascal
“A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.” ReligionNumbersLipsFollowers Book:All Religions are True Source: All Religions are True
“When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.” ReligionLipsMysteriousSundayPermitCashDeitiesOrganized ReligionWednesdayLip ServiceAbsolution Author:Frank Sinatra