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

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.

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.

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.

There’s no God higher than truth.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call our religious faith. But local customs are infinite and contradictory. Which are we...

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn’t tell us to go to church. He didn’t tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place...

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good...

If Heaven actually exists, I don’t need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt to sell you a share in the ultimate gated community?

The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave us blind and groping in the dark. If I believe in one proposition, I have become locked behind...

One day Lal shahbaz was wandering in the desert with his friend Sheikh Bhaa ud-Din Zakariya. It was winter, and evening time, so they began to build a fire to keep warm. They found some...

To understand our faith — to theologize in the Catholic tradition — we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of God, person, creation, relationship, identity, natural law, virtues, conscience, moral norms if we...

simplified” and capable of only the most elementary ideas, yet scornful of anyone who presumes to point out the higher things or the real complexity of life.

You don’t have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He’d wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn’t have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

The first and last lesson of religion is, ‘The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.’ It puts an affront upon nature.

The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received no answer to the question of why He had to do it; but they found it difficult to understand...

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is...

Religion… has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever… If someone votes for a party that you don’t agree with, you’re free to argue about it as...

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Religious people claim that it’s just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there’s got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles...

There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods...

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

The only crime is pride.

The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don’t love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins....

The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence, in one of the pages out of the thousands, to support respectful and...

Dicho del ProfetaNo es de los míos quien miente, rompe una promesa o defrauda la confianza depositada en él.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God’s presence.

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the...

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one...

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

Tim Minchin’s musings on Tony, the first ‘fish’ ever to have feet:Imagine what Tony would think, standing there on his brand new feet on the brink of the beginnings of mankind as we know it…...

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps...