Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
She Never Cried in Front of Me.
Song lyrics, That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy (2008)
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 5, “Dreadnought” (p. 57)
Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
She Never Cried in Front of Me.
Song lyrics, That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy (2008)
“She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.”
Kameron Hurley (1980) American writer
Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 6).
Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) American writer
Commonly attributed to Deloria on the internet, or sometimes to a few others, but without legitimate sourcing, the earliest variant of this yet located is a single quotation in Awakened India Vo. 99 (1994) p. 327, ascribed to Fr. Patrick Collins, University of Notre Dame, USA:
Religion is for those who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who know they have been there — perhaps through involvement with religion.
The next variant located is ascribed to an anonymous member of Alcoholics Anonymous in Illuminating the Heart: Steps Toward a More Spiritual Marriage (1996) by Barbara G. Markway, p. 28:
Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have been there.
A variant also occurs in The Higher Power of the Twelve-Step Program: For Believers & Non-Believers (2001), by Glenn F. Chesnut, Ch. 1 : Discovering a Higher Power:
Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell; twelvestep spirituality is for those who've been there.
Misattributed
“She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
“I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.”
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) Russian chemist and inventor
An Outline of the System of the Elements