“Look up. Do you see the sky? Do you see God? No? No matter. Now look at the person next to you. Look joyfully upon him, and remember what Saint Augustine said: "If you want to see God, you have the means to do it. God is love.”— Paolo Sorrentino, Cardinal Voiello, Silvio Orlando, imdb.com
“Think of all the things you like. There, that's what God is.”— Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com
“The only problem was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history.”— Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“I'm afraid that God is speaking and no one is listening.”— Kim Newton, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“Men can never be free, because they're weak, corrupt, worthless... and restless. The people believe in authority. They've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. Science is their religion.”— David Duchovny, Chris Carter, Cigarette Smoking Man, William B. Davis, imdb.com
“There is a man with pamphlets talking about a God. I ask him if God loves his Children. He gives me a confident ‘Yes’ I ask him if God loves homosexuals. He tells me ‘No’. I ask him if homosexuals are God’s Children. He said nothing. I do not believe he has heard the Question.”— Atlanta Team, youtube.com
“For speaking at the Republican convention, I got attacked way more by liberal gay people than by conservative Christian people.”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“God is unknown to those who know him, and is known to those who do not know him at all.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though…”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”— Rob Bell, amazon.com
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”— John Lennon, blog.biographyonline.net
“This is what Christmas is about: love, hope, and faith. In as much of an abundance as available. Regardless of your theological background and beliefs.”— Abby Rosmarin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Explore your spirituality. Maybe that means your religion, or maybe just your human connection with nature. Let yourself meditate on the condition of the world.”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com
“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.”— 2 Timothy 1:7, buzzfeed.com
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.”— 1 Timothy 4:12, biblehub.com