Religious Quotations

"I tell you, you will serve only your God, becasue man is too noble to serve anyone but God." - Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland. (Sermon against Communist adversaries, NY Times 20 Mar 61)

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." - Isaac Bashevis Singer (NY Times 3 Dec 78)

"Life is God's novel, Let him write it." - Isaab Bashevis Singer (Quoted in Dom Moraes ed Voices for Life Prager 75)

"Do not let Sunday be taken from you . . . If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan." - Albert Schweitzer (Quoted by Erica Anderson The Schweitzer Album Harper & Row 65)

"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints." -On the Eucharist, ib

"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle." - Frederick Buechner (Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC Harper & Row 73)

"God is the mysterium tremendum  that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I." - Martin Buber, recalled on his death 13 Jun 65.

"Prayer for many is like a foriegn land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else." - Robert McAfee Brown (Introduction to John B Coburn) Prayer and Personal Religion, Westminster 67

"The grace of God is courtesy." - Hilaire Belloc, Quoted by Monica Baldwin (I Leap over the Wall) Rinehart 50

"Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life." - Karl Barth (The Word of God and the Word of Man) Harper 57

"Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say." - W H Auden (Atlantic) May 70

"I sought my soul but my soul I could not see. I sought my God but my God eluded me. I sought my brother - and I found all three." - Quoted by London Church (News Service May 86)

"God was more exciting then than he is now. - Child's comment on the Old Testament, quoted by Gerald Kennedy (The Seven Worlds of the Minister Harper & Row 68)

"We must recognize that the death of God is a historical event: God has died in our time, in our history, in our existence. - Thomas J. Altizer, Associate Professor of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta (Time 22 Oct 65)