Tom Robbins Quotes

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

The words of Jesus, as distinguishable from the matter in which they are embedded as diamonds in dunghills. A more precious morsel of ethics was never seen.

I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.