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Quentin Crisp Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Quentin Crisp

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Relationship Marriage

Formula Quotes and Sayings

Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

Religion Quotes and Sayings

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo

All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I do not believe in the God of theology
who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

I do not believe that God has
imposed suffering upon anyone
to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
- Ernest Holmes

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes

This too, shall pass.
- Bible

All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

The martyr cannot be dishonored.
Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;
every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson

If people are good only because they
fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

My criticism of most religions is that
they don't allow criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Though we may know Him by a thousand names,
He is one and the same to us all.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance -
but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston

It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson

Religion is a matter of the heart.
No physical inconvenience can warrant
abandonment of one's own religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,
one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein

To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison

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