Quote of the Day for 2016-09-07

"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

— The Book of Leviticus, chapter 19, verses 33-34. Translation from the King James Version (1611)

Palestinian man overlooking the refugee camp outside Jaramana, Syria (1948)

Quote of the Day for 2016-09-01

"I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inaccessible, inside all and careless of all."

— William Saroyan (1908-1981) Here Comes There Goes You Know Who (1961)

Lemminkäinen's Mother by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1897)

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-03

"I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others."

— James Baldwin (1924-1987) "In Search of a Majority," address delivered at Kalamazoo College (February 1960)

Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law by Rembrandt (1659)

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-25

"God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about."

— Julian Huxley (1887-1975) "Religion Without God," The Observer (March 31, 1963)

The Ancient of Days, frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy by William Blake (1794)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-24

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."

— Epistle of James, chapter 1, verses 19-20

While Captain America mourns Sharon Carter, the Hulk has other plans (November 11, 2013) PVP by Scott R. Kurtz

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-20

"Like any thinking person, I should like to think there was—I don't care whose or which—some God. Not out of fear: death is a lark; it's life that stings. But if there were some God, then I'd exist in his imagination, like Antigone in Sophocles'. I'd have no complications, no confusions, no waste parts or misplaced elements and then, oh, Henry, then I'd make some sense. I'd be a queen in Arcady and not an animal in chaos. How, from where we started, did we ever reach this Christmas?"

— James Goldman (1927-1998) The Lion in Winter, act 2, scene 1

Theater poster by Wiesław Grzegorczyk for a production of Antigone at the People's Theater in Krakow, Poland (1998)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-15

"I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support."

— John Buchan (1875-1940) Speech to the The Law Society of Upper Canada, February 21, 1936

Bizarro cartoon by Dan Piraro with Phil Witte (June 2, 2007)

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-22

"She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not to find God."

— Alice Walker (1944-    ) The Color Purple, "Dear Nettie," page 165

Joliet Jake (John Belushi) "sees the light" while Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) looks on, in The Blues Bothers (1980)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-22

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist there is no God."

— Heywood Broun (1888-1939) "A New Preface to an Old Story," Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939

Terry Gilliam's conception of God, purportedly based on cricketer W.G. Grace, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-05

"No one can worship his God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."

— Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Speech before the Economic Club at the Hotel Astor in New York City, May 23, 1912

Great Famine memorial by Rowan Gillespie in Dublin (Photograph by Rick Munish)