Religion Quotes by Tom Robbins

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.

— Tom Robbins

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

— Tom Robbins

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

— Tom Robbins

“Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.”

— Tom Robbins

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

— Tom Robbins

“Alcoholism is an imperfect spiritual longing.”

— Tom Robbins

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero…

— Tom Robbins

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

— Tom Robbins

“Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.”

— Tom Robbins

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

— Tom Robbins

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women?…

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“Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine.”

— Tom Robbins

“not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a…

— Tom Robbins

“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.”

— Tom Robbins

“But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It’s so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its…

— Tom Robbins

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize…

— Tom Robbins

“How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems…

— Tom Robbins

“As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the…

— Tom Robbins

we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man…

— Tom Robbins

“With me, something different and deep, in bright focus and pointing the way, arrived in the practice of hitchhiking. I am the…

— Tom Robbins

Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually,…

— Tom Robbins

Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they…

— Tom Robbins

I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas…

— Tom Robbins

“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was…

— Tom Robbins

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might…

— Tom Robbins

According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one…

— Tom Robbins

“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to…

— Tom Robbins

“Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make…

— Tom Robbins

“ 'how then does soul differ from spirit?' you're probably asking yourself. although he must have been reasonably sure nobody was. "Well,…

— Tom Robbins

“The notion that inspired play (even when audacious, offensive, or obscene) enhances rather than diminishes intellectual vigor and spiritual fulfillment, the notion…

— Tom Robbins

“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for…

— Tom Robbins

“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we…

— Tom Robbins

“Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's…

— Tom Robbins

“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then…

— Tom Robbins

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive,…

— Tom Robbins

“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it…

— Tom Robbins

Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And…

— Tom Robbins

Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die -…

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“And if your master truly loved you, he would tell you that. In order to escape the bounds of earthly experience, you…

— Tom Robbins