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.

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

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.

In the meanwhile, just see how profitable the fruits of non-violence are in this life. You stay pure while someone else, someone like me and my Rajput clan, does the sinning and the killing. While...

I’ll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.” Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They’re like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They’re organized religion on eight legs.

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own...

May God open our mind and hearts to the gospel of salvation.

Jesus is the Son of God.We are sons and daughters of God.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

Religion is just an interpretation; science is another one.

For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)…always providing that one has the...

I wouldn’t burden any decent system of faith by participating in it… I’m not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that’s me.

A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion.

I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. “Gone,” she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. “Just like...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul;...

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person’s resolve.

A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Soar on to the King, the crown jewel,And then you’ll truly seeThat nothing is as beautifulAs His grand Majesty.

The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, tosalvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task wasto get the Arabs to think about religion in...

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

I don’t like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but...

Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will

Music is my higher power

If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my...

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

I wasn’t saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still...

Some religions actually go so far as to label anyone who belongs to a religious sect other than their own a heretic, even though the overall doctrines and impressions of godliness are nearly the same....

When every hope is gone, ‘when helpers fail and comforts flee,’ I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the...

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are...

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don’t aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth,” the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.

Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science…. That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn’t exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God....

All Abraham’s sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God’s wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be gaps in our understanding. Why should we fill those gaps with suspicion, bigotry...

I’m not a Christian, but I have read his book.