People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.

I am suprised to a mad extent that people who claim to be intelligent and truth seeking go to church, hear their religious leaders say something, and without vetting it to a reasonable extent swallow...

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

Some who grow dull religious straight commenceAnd gain in morals what they lose in sense.

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order...

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough...

America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.

Darkness is perhaps the only reality, the only truth, both of which have only one property; they are eternal. What we call light is a mere temporary absence of darkness, untruth, a mere temporary absence...

There’s no God higher than truth.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has...

It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, there’s a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Ressurection. Do they know how...

There are so many things to exploit man, but religion and patriotism are at the top of the list.

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you’re probably misreading your faith.

The prize won is only a token; the absolute prize is the positive change your work has made in the communities and across borders.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science...

We should not influence our children to such a belief or religion. We should just show them the path of goodness; and from that, they can choose according to their interests.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.

The tongue is like a lion, if you let it loose, it will wound someone.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

While it may be impossible to ‘disprove’ the existence of some ‘Higher Power’ or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through analysis and research — to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions...

Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has...

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

My Ten Commandments:1. God is a verb, not a noun.2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools...

People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

Religion is an ideology like the terrorism, Fascism and Nazism. It can be poisonous and dangerous, but still there are people who follow them selfishly.

Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God...

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

Dicho del ProfetaAyudando a otrosLes ordeno ayudar a cualquier persona oprimida, tanto si es musulmán como si no.

But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don’t think of God as my betrayer. The...

If religion is against homosexuality, then it is against the will and happiness of people.

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there.

I wonder how it is possible to believe in religion and also believe nothing is wrong with you.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment.” (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)

It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one’s children right or wrong, that can be even more fierce than the commitment to them as explicit, difficult people, and that...

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both...

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go...

Who has stopped worshiping us?””Everyone in the old world,” April said little harshly. “But of course they have, young woman. We left, didn’t we? We came to Everworld. How can you expect people to worship...

I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist....

A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained...

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.