To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: insanity religion challenge convention possessed



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You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: god religion law survival rules instinct hunger starvation dilemma the-ten-commandments



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In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: equality choice religion atheism patriarchy theism



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Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: love sex religion marriage relationships dating sex-before-marriage



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Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: religion drugs prayer alcohol escapism homeless nonbeliever believer infedel intoxicants



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An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

James Hogg

Stichwörter: madness religion gothic rural scottish edinburgh



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The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

James Hogg

Stichwörter: murder madness religion gothic rural scottish edinburgh



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In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: science religion the-bible birth pregnancy adam-and-eve genesis logical divided-and-conquered



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a soul in a state of grace need fear nothing from devils, for they are so cowardly that they feel from the gaze of a child

St-Therese de Lisieux

Stichwörter: wisdom religion spirituality strength-of-spirit



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Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to represent abstract Beauty. Very wonderful. But I hope there will always be room for me to dart about among the statues, don't you, Father Stone?

Ray Bradbury

Stichwörter: beauty religion church clergy



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