- Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Kings, priests, and statesmen, blast the human flower, Even in its tender bud; their influence darts, Like subtle poison through the bloodless veins, Of desolate society. Earth groans beneath religion’s iron age, And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood. From the dust of creeds outworn. The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew, Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. Hell is a city much like London – A populous and a smoky city”. - Quotes by Fulton John Sheen
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support”. - Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. Beware of the man whose god is in the skies. In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long? must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?” - Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither. The God of my idolatry. God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. What damnederror, but some sober brow, Will bless it and approve it with a text? Now I, to comfort him, bid him a’ should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. All hell shall stir for this. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff ‘d and reckless libertine, Himself the primerose path of dalliance treads. Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky, Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull, Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. You are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you. As flies to wanton boys, are we to gods; They kill us for their sport. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices, Make instruments to plague us. There’s husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt. Had I but served my God with half the zeal, I served my king, he would not in mine age, Have left me naked to mine enemies”.
Tags: Fulton John Sheen, George Bernard Shaw, God And Religion, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Shakespeare
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