Famous Quotes

"I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion."

Andrew Greeley on Religion

More quotes about Religion

• "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

  Dalai Lama on Religion

• "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

• "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

  Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Andrew Greeley

• "I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century."

• "An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me."

• "Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?"

• "The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half."

• "I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad."