‘Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.’ (Sn)
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‘… some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they’re doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.’ (Sn)
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. (UA)
'And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.' (UA)
… if there were two things the city liked, it was tradition and goddesses, especially if the goddesses were a bit short on chiffon above the waist. (UA)
She was, of course, beautiful. You seldom saw a goddess portrayed as ugly. This probably had something to do with their ability to strike people down instantly. (UA)
'Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.' (N)
That's what gods are! An answer that will do! (N)
Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people. (WA)
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to those who think they’ve found it. (MR)
'We’re the most secret society you can imagine.’
‘Really? Who are you, then?’ ‘The Monks of History.’ ‘Huh? I’ve never heard of you!’ ‘See? That’s how good we are.' (TOT) SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it’s wrong. There is a lot more to Science than you think. (Wings)
'I don’t begin to understand,’ he said, flatly. ‘To me it sounds like Jargon.’
‘JARGON?’ Hrsh-Hgn turned to the Bank. ‘Nonsense,’ he explained. ‘In Sadhimist tradition God invented it to foresstall the firsst attempt at intersstellar travel. To prevent scientissts from understanding each other, you understand.' (DSS) '... my mother says they were creations of Satan.’
‘Yes, but your mother says that about practically everything,’ said Wobbler. ‘This is true,’ said Yo-less gravely. ‘That's her hobby.' (OYKSM) It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes.
This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers. (GO) ... when it came to avoiding going to church, the church he stolidly avoided going to was St. Cecil and All Angels, no-nonsense C of E, and he wouldn’t have dreamed of avoiding going to any other. (GO)
That's how it goes, you think you’re on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you. (GO)
'I was embarrassed. It’s always embarrassing, meeting deities,’ said Gurder. (Wings)
She had the slightly wistful, slightly hungry look that so many women of a certain age wore when they’d decided to trust in gods because of the absolute impossibility of continuing to trust in men. (MM)
Building a temple didn’t mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture. (MM)
'We are a small people,’ her father had said. ‘It ain’t wise to come to the attention of the gods.' (W)
... the tradition of burying a shepherd with a piece of raw wool in the coffin was true, too. Even gods understand that a shepherd can’t neglect the sheep. A god who didn’t understand would not be worth believing in. (WFM)
Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant – assuming that every creature that could be called ‘human’ is allowed in, and that the human race eventually totals a thousand times the number of humans alive up until now. This is such a generous amount of space that it suggests that room has also been provided for some alien races or- a happy thought – that pets are allowed. (LH)
Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness, apart from in a very sternly abridged
dictionary. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap. (TT) 'There have to be rules, Mistress Weatherwax.’
‘And what’s the first one that your Om requires, then?’ ‘That believers should worship no other god but Om,’ said Oats promptly. ‘Oh yes? That’s gods for you. Very self-centred, as a rule.' (CJ) |
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