Jon Stewart Quotes

Fear God and work hard.

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

Our National Church and general religious institutions cost us, upon accredited computation, about twenty million pounds annually. Worship thus being expensive, I appeal to your heads and your pockets whether we are not too poor to have a God. If poor men cost the State as much, they would be put like officers on half pay; and while our distress lasts, I think it would be wise to do the same thing with the deity.

Fear first made gods in the world.

There are fifty churches in a city and a thousand saloons. The churches are open one day and two or three evenings in each week. The saloons are open every week-day all day long and far into the night.

Anytime you mention Jesus or faith, people are turned off. I think it scares a lot of people.

When I was little, I used to have nightmares about Godzilla walking out of the Great South Bay, because we had a fire alarm out where we lived that sounded just like his feet.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.