“The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures.” PeopleWorldFactsUniverseDangerousHigherTerribleCreaturesParadiseHeavenly Author:Rudolf Steiner
“Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.” IfsUniverseFoundFriendsHabitTerribleGhastly Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God.” WorldArtWholeHelpingPainUniverseImaginationSinBreakTerribleSorrowHolyHighestCuresChainsLinksBondageNo Pain Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has - to be rejoined with the one somehow, to become a part of the universe. Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.” ThinkingMenHumansUniverseLostNaturalTerribleSpeciesUrgesPriestsExploitationDistortionTraders Author:George Carlin
“Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.” ThinkingHas BeensUniverseEvilReligiousMillionsTearsTerribleEternalWorshipMiseryDrivenPunishmentDoctrineInsanityDogmaAgonyDegradingInfamous Author:Robert Green Ingersoll