No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow...

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

He didn’t like religion, hadn’t liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind...

truth” and we must instead learn from each other in a mutually enhancing quest for conscious contact with the Sacred.

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

He said to the cardinal, “I’m a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments...

All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to...

Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday...

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

Haven’t you noticed that men struggle every day to correct the defects of my work? What is a plane or a diving suit but an emendation to my work? Even those who worship me spend...

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to...

Bukti kebesaran Tuhan adalah selalu ada “pipa kapiler paralel” pada setiap perbedaan kepercayaan.

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

I’m an atheist. I wouldn’t even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!

No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful...

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does...

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. “NO?

The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuration of hospitality, welcoming others,...

Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.

She’d never been religious. She hadn’t allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

All have the ability to perceive and live in dimensional synthesis, yet they spend time with the sciences trying to separate these realms, splitting the worlds into minutia, seeking the god particle. They are searching...

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an “Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition” right after he finishes putting...

The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an...

Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a...

Ci sono divergenze di natura teologica su… Vediamo, per esempio sulla raffigurazione latina del purgatorio. – C’è qualcuno a cui frega una cippa di minchia della raffigurazione latina del purgatorio? – reagisce Dio, versandosi dell’altro...

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import – what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature...

In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look...

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we’ll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of...

Including matter itself, antimatter

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we...

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin...

Be-lieve, Be- like, Be- LIFE!

Si me convierto será porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo.

When we look closely, not only at what Jesus taught but at how he went about disseminating his message, time and again we find that what he was preaching was the gospel of a partnership...

Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.