Favorite Quotes on Religion?

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**Other than from the bible, what are some of your all time favorite religion quotes? Please identify the author if you can.

One of mine:

“Judas was more zealous in the cause of the enemy than he was in the cause of Our Lord. Men who leave the Church in like manner seek to atone for their uneasy consciences by attacking the Church. Since their conscience will not leave them alone, they will not leave the Guide of their conscience alone. The Voltaire who left the Church was the Voltaire who scoffed. Their hatred is not due to their unbelief, but their unbelief is due to their hatred. The Church makes them uneasy in their sin and they feel that if they could drive the Church from the world they could sin with impunity.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Please feel free to comment on the quotes of others.**
 
It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

Chesterton
 
“Whoever has God lacks nothing, God alone suffices”

St Theresa of Avila

Not so much religion but God in general
 
“Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer”. -Saint Padre Pio

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” —St. Augustine

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” -Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
 
Bradski

**Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. Voltaire. **

Then Voltaire was ridiculous if he was certain of this! 😉
 
On a cold winter night, a big snow storm hit the city and the temple where Dharma Master Dan Xia served as a Monk got snowed in. Cut off from outside traffic, the fuel delivery man could not get to the Zen Monastery. Soon it ran out of heating fuel after a few days and everybody was shivering in the cold. The monks could not even cook their meals.

Dan Xia began to remove the wooden Buddha Statues from the display and put them into the fireplace.

“What are you doing?” the monks were shocked to see that the holy Buddha Statues were being burnt inside the fire place. “You are burning our holy religious artefacts! You are insulting the Buddha!”

“Are these statues alive and do they have any Buddha nature?” asked Master Dan Xia.

“Of course not,” replied the monks. “They are made of wood. They cannot have Buddha Nature.”

“OK. Then they are just pieces of firewood and therefore can be used as heating fuel,” said Master Dan Xia. “Can you pass me another piece of firewood please? I need some warmth.”

The next day, the snow storm had gone and Dan Xia went into town and brought back some replacement Buddha Statues. After putting them on the displays, he began to kneel down and burn incense sticks to them.

“Are you worshipping firewood?” ask the monks who are confused for what he was doing.

“No. I am treating these statues as holy artefacts and am honouring the Buddha.” replied Dan Xia.

rossum
 
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

The great curse of modern philosophy is the almost universally prevailing rebellion against intellectual self-discipline. Where loose thinking obtains, truth cannot possibly be grasped, whence the conclusion naturally follows that there is no truth.

Both by Etienne Gilson
 
“I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.” W.C. Fields 😃
 
The death of the just: Death will reach everyone, the good and the bad; but the destiny of each one is quite different. The just man sees himself in this valley of tears as a prisoner, serving a very hard term. He considers himself a slave in this world, suffering an extremely distressing servitude. He regards himself a sailor caught in a horrible storm. And as death means an end of his confinement, an end of his slavery, and is the port of his salvation, he ceases not to cry with David, “Woe is me that my sojourning is prolonged!. . .” (Ps. 119:5). He ceases not to ask with the Apostle, “. . . Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Rom. 7:24)
–The Golden Key to Heaven, by Saint Anthony Mary Claret
 
“Judas Iscariot sold Our Lord for 30 pieces of silver. Your majesty is about to sell Him for 30,000 ducats. Here He is - take Him and sell Him”. - Tomas de Torquemada
 
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