religion
“We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.”
“The mystery of the poor is this: that they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.”
“Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.”
“Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.”
“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
“Extinction, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.”
“Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”
“As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to layer her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”
“As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.”
“All that is true, from anyone it is said, always comes from the Holy Spirit.”
“A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.”
“Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.”
“After all had been baptised, I order that the temples of the false Gods be pulled down and idols broken.”
“The most perverse people in the world... they never tell the truth, but think of nothing but how to tell subtle lies and to deceive the simple and ignorant people.”
“We have today removed more than five hundred [idols] with the help of the [people] and our own axes.”
“If it were not for the Brahmins, we should have all the heathens embracing our faith.”
“I know not how to describe in words the joy I feel in seeing this done, witnessing the destruction of the idols by the very people who but lately adored them.”