Brent Weeks Quotes

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order ...

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is bet a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

Religion can thrive only in a personal universe.

Believing in God was something I took as much for granted as the air I breathed. Religion wasn't something that came out of a box on Sunday.

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

I am religious in my thinking.

Not only should the Indonesian people believe in God, but every Indonesian should believe in his own God.

I have a very strong faith.

Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness.

Religion and God are totally separate. Religion is created by government. God is God.

I play for God and only God.

I respect religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.

I wanna rhyme about God.

Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple leaving, and the lady said, oh, I have to hurry home. I'm going to church tomorrow. And her friends said, church? You've already been to church.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!