A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.
To celebrate or not to celebrate, that is the question...
Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx Every religion at its core is exclusive. - Ravi Zacharias Holy Mackerel: Fish served at Church supper - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. - Edmund Burke The atheist religion don't believe in the bible. - Archie Bunker Where God has his church, the Devil will have his chapel. - Spanish Proverb There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. - Niccolo Machiavelli If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? - Benjamin Franklin Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein Give me a couple of pages of the Bible, and I'll give you a picture. - Cecil B. DeMille I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. - Brad Pitt There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. - Roger Babson Today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced. - Jeffrey R Holland Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken You can always borrow a corkscrew from a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. - Chauncey Depew To be religious is to have a life that flows with the presence of the extraordinary. - Ann Belford Ulanov We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift I definitely want my son Brooklyn christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. - David Beckham Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. - Malcolm Muggeridge I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. - Kingsley Amis Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs. - Katya Zamolodchikova An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. - Dennis Prager Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson The world says everything happens randomly, without reason. But the Bible reassures us that God works in all things. - David Jeremiah It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it, staying at Home With a Bobolink for a Chorister And an Orchard for a Dome - Emily Dickinson The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.' - George Washington Carver Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy I you can make any leading religion of the world look like complete nonsense, you can be sure of only one thing: you haven't understood it. - Wilfred Cantwell Smith The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven - Rick Warren Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. - Ravi Zacharias Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. - Malcolm Muggeridge see also Religious, Stress & Survivor Sections Friar Thumper Gambling Chips Greek Monk Monk On A Rope Monk’s Christmas Vow Monk’s Fish And Chip Stand Monk’s Story Silent Monks Singing Hallelujah Tiny Monks |
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