Tom Robbins Quotes on Belief
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If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid- but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
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Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic.
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There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.
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A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
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...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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'And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?'