„But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened beforeThat men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason,And then Money, and Power, and what they call Life, or Race, or Dialectic.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
„Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.“
— Paracelsus
„The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.“
— Stephen King