After all, every man is the son of a woman.
What the poor man says is not listened to.
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.
The rich man doesn't pay, the debtor does.
The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.
Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.
One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
You don't have to be religious to hear God, you just have to be willing, and there's a big difference between the two.
