Attitude Quote by William James

Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

— Rick Warren

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive…

— Walter Scott

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of…

— David Dark

“That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“As it should be, the Lord's day is always an important and blessed day. We spend it peacefully with singing, praying and discussing God's…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“We must be Bright and Cheerful, long faces do not make Religion”

— Swami Vivekananda

“Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing…

— C.S. Lewis

Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a…

— Henry James

Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is…

— Charles Hodge

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of…

— Alain de Botton

“But as men farther exalt their idea of their divinity, it is their notion of his power and knowledge only, not of his goodness,…

— Christopher Hitchens