Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Interesting Aphorisms about religion

 If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire

The God of the Christians is a father who is a great deal more concerned about his apples then he is about his children.
Diderot

There can be no creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
Elias Canetti

God is ashamed when the prosperous boast of his special favor.
Rabindranath Tagore

The only thing that stops God from sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.
Chamfort

From the moment that a religion solicits the aid of philosophy its ruin is inevitable.
Heine

All religions promise a reward for excellence is of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
Schopenhauer

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted on men, He would kill himself.
Alexandre  Dumas

Oxford Book of Aphorisms