Robert A. Heinlein quote: "I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones—by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one."

I’ve never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE

The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE

Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE

It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE

There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN

Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA

Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON

There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS

…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS

Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS

No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE

Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE

Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY

We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.

What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
JESS WALTER

How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY

The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK

People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA

It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA

Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE

Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA

A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH

This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS

And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS

…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS

He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN

As a faith community, we want to respond, whether that is individually or as an organization.
JEFF JONES

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT

Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI

Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone
SUZY KASSEM

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th...
J.K. ROWLING

Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw...
KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB

He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th...
CHAD PELLEY

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
MADELINE MILLER

I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi...
ADAM SILVERA

It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...
WALTER MOSLEY

But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �...
M.M. KAYE

One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a...
C. JOYBELL C.

When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I

He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”

-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT

She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES

I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones—by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.

Robert A. Heinlein

Share:

Related

More Robert A. Heinlein