For a considerable portion of humanity today, it is possible and indeed likely that one’s neighbor, one’s colleague, or one’s employer will have a different mother tongue, eat different food, and follow a different religion...

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.

Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane?

To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn’t even belong on the list, since it...

To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

Tanrı’nın ne olduğunu bilmek istiyor muyuz? Bunu herhangi bir insanın yazabileceği yazılı kitaplarda arama, ama Yaratılış’ın imzasında ara.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything. Like the sun at noonday, mysticism explains everything else by the blaze of...

God giveth and taketh with great efficacy.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to...

You can’t have a church town without belief and you can’t have belief without intolerance.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

The very thought of such people’s intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

I think God is such a good idea that if God didn’t exist, we’d have to invent God.

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

God is magnificent. God is mighty.

God‘s love for mankind; wide, long, high and deep.

God cares. He will supply all your needs.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and...

Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it’s a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it’s made up of people, every...

I don’t know [why we’re here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And...

In every religion; a true love is the love for the God, in mine it is for you.

But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy...

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer...

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there’s no need to explain or defend your taste.

The prayer of a trained theurgist is like the majestic flow of a large river; but an ignorant and weak person can produce only something similar to an irregular trickle from a half-clogged tap.

Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I’m sorry has no value in the grave.

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn’t adopt chemistry as a religion.

At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client’s back, as the three of us sat discussing our spiritual desires and ambivalence about religion....

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But...

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and...

The only relationship where you’ll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

Mathematicians, astronomers, and physicists are oftenreligious, even mystical; biologists much less often; economists and psychologists very seldom indeed. It is as their subject matter comes nearer to man himself that their antireligious bias hardens.

Der Papst ist der einzige Konzern-Vize, der seinen Chef nie zu sehen bekommt. Nicht einmal bei der Weihnachtsfeier.

…Bin Laden’s quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck.” “If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put...

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.

the living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

I’m aagnostic, meaning I don’t even know whether I’m agnostic or not.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is...

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)