Hurmence Quotes

#1. I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#2. Never interfere with events of nature.

Sameh Elsayed

#3. Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#4. But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#5. There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

Beth Broderick

#6. I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#7. Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Georges Carpentier

#8. You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen

#9. The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Sri Aurobindo

#10. Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#11. I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#12. My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech. It wouldn't be transcribed in the form of words arranged linearly, but as a giant ideogram, to be absorbed as a whole.

Ted Chiang

#13. The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#14. Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#15. Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#16. The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#17. I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.

Andrea Pirlo

#18. It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know?

Gerard Way

#19. Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#20. All human progress is preceded by new questions

Tony Robbins

#21. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#22. We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

Joseph Epstein

#23. I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#25. Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

Ruth Hurmence Green