Faith Vs Reality Quotes

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the name of God, questioning whose God is the best God and whose exploration of this deeper reality is the best explanation. That defies everything that this deeper reality teaches.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.