Religious Metaphor Quotes

Money is the God of Algiers and Mahomet is their prophet.

I have always said, the first Whig [Liberal] was the Devil.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

An angel of God never has wings.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

Religion is a smile on a dog.

God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first. A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace. A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God."" Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep." I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

All religious expression is symbolism.

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky ... a pulsating force of incredible energy.

Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.