„The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.“

„There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.“

—  John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900

Quoted by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, The Use of Life, chapter IV: "Recreation" (1894).

„Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition.“

—  Alan Moore English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Kontextus: Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well. The difference between religion and magic is the same as what we were talking about earlier – I think you could map that over those two poles of fascism and anarchism. Magic is closer to anarchism.

„The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion“

—  Chris Carter American television and film producer, director and writer 1956

As quoted in "A close encounter with Chris Carter" at Salon (28 April 2000) http://www.salon.com/2000/04/28/chriscarter/
Kontextus: The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion … And so we created a 
dilemma for her character that plays right into Mulder’s hands. So that cross she wears,
 which was there from the pilot episode, is all-important for a character who is torn 
between her rational character and her spiritual side. That is, I think, a very smart
 thing to do. The show is basically a religious show. It’s about the search for God. You 
know, "The truth is out there." That’s what it’s about.

„This is one of the most intricate problems of religion.“

—  Averroes, könyv On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy

Part 3: Of Fate And Predestination; Opening sentence
On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy
Kontextus: This is one of the most intricate problems of religion. For if you look into the traditional arguments () about this problem you will find them contradictory; such also being the case with arguments of reason. The contradiction in the arguments of the first kind is found in the Qur'an and the Hadith.

„Although most religions promise paradise after death, most collectivists, especially Marxists, preach paradise on earth, but through means rarely considered heavenly.“

—  L. K. Samuels American writer 1951

Forrás: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 62

„Fear not the thunder, little one.
It's weather, simply weather;
It's friendly giants full of fun
Clapping their hands together.“

—  Ogden Nash American poet 1902 - 1971

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

„Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.“

—  Michael Crichton American author, screenwriter, film producer 1942 - 2008

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

„Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.“

—  John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900

„Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.“

—  Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667 - 1745

Journal to Stella (November 8, 1710)

„One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.“

—  J. M. Barrie Scottish writer 1860 - 1937

The Twelve-Pound Look (1910)

„In the beginning let's say Weather Report was a joint thing. Then, after the second album there's no question about it, it became more and more my group. Wayne wanted it like that, but we were always 'partners in crime.“

—  Joe Zawinul austrian composer and pianist 1932 - 2007

No Wayne, no Weather Report.
As quoted in Nicholson, Stuart. "Jazz-Rock: A History". Schirmer Books. 1998.

„After the week of stormy weather, she set sail under sunny skies, on a glassy sea with a big swell running.“

—  Abby Sunderland Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor 1993

Forrás: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 63

„President Reagan must be happy over how bad the weather's been this winter, because its the one thing no one's blaming on him. Theres nothing television news likes better than bad weather, and we sure get a lot of it in the United States.“

—  Andy Rooney writer, humorist, television personality 1919 - 2011

[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 8, Weather, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]

„We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„Upon his having frequently preached in this manner he was seized, and after trial he was condemned to banishment, not for having disparaged their religion, but for his inflaming the people to sedition; for this is one of their most ancient laws, that no man ought to be punished for his religion.“

—  Thomas More, könyv Utopia

Forrás: Utopia (1516), Ch. 9 : Of the Religions of the Utopians
Kontextus: Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. He being newly baptised did, notwithstanding all that we could say to the contrary, dispute publicly concerning the Christian religion, with more zeal than discretion, and with so much heat, that he not only preferred our worship to theirs, but condemned all their rites as profane, and cried out against all that adhered to them as impious and sacrilegious persons, that were to be damned to everlasting burnings. Upon his having frequently preached in this manner he was seized, and after trial he was condemned to banishment, not for having disparaged their religion, but for his inflaming the people to sedition; for this is one of their most ancient laws, that no man ought to be punished for his religion.

„The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.“

—  Thomas Paine, könyv The Age of Reason

Forrás: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), Chapter III: Conclusion.

„A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.“

—  Pam Brown Australian poet 1948

„There are things worth being loyal to, surely. Coffee, for instance, or one’s religion.“

—  John Galsworthy English novelist and playwright 1867 - 1933

Flowering Wilderness (1932)

„Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion.“

—  Gregory Bateson English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist 1904 - 1980

Attributed to Bateson (1980) in: David N. Perkins, Jack Lochhead, John Christopher Bishop (1987) Thinking: The Second International Conference. Vol 2, p. .124