The only valid faith today is disbelief.

The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth – which in the last analysis is a search...

Dicho del ProfetaVerdadDecir la verdad a los injustos es la mejor de las guerras santas.

Love is the purest religion and the most destructive addiction!

Trata a este mundo como yo; como un caminante, un jinete que se detiene a la sombra de un árbol por un tiempo, y luego prosigue su camino.

How do you know it’s not true if you don’t believe in it?

I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to be relied upon in this Anti-Slavery movement. Do not misunderstand my railing—do not class me with those...

Religion thrives on want and fear of the unknown, on lack of education. A frightened and confused human is fed by religious institutions with the illusion that the solution to his real problems is to...

The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation; justice, a wrong; delicacy,...

I couldn’t get Him out of my head. Still can’t. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about...

It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace...

I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he...

There is going to come a time when we have to accept who we are without the assistance of religion. That will be the dawn of true faith. We leave the big decisions to invisible...

Oenone had found the chapel by accident, and was not certain what kept drawing her back to it. She was not a Christian. Few people were anymore, except in Africa, and on certain islands of...

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature–: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

Catholic, Episcopalian, I won’t have sects with you.

God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one

Let’s say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don’t know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to...

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency...

Fatima benim bir parçamdır, kim ki Fatima’ya kötülük eder, tıpkı bana (kötülük etmiş gibi) olur; kim ki onu hoşnut eder, beni hoşnut etmiş olur.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God’s joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense...

Your RELIGION does not make you a good person. Your BEHAVIOR does.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I’m sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Humanity’s relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation – setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run –...

God’s gifts put men’s best dreams to shame.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know...

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

Humanity is its own worst enemy. What chance do any other species have?Survival is the parchment upon which the Law of Nature is inscribed.And what I’ll find was always mine.And what I’ll say, I’ve said...

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Malgré les fanatiques, il serait extrêmement dangereux d’importer en France la thèse d’un «choc de civilisations» entre le monde musulman et nous. Ne faisons pas de l’Islam le miroir où toutes nos difformités s’effacent. Ne...

If materials things only are what you’re talking about when you say ,” I’m blessed”. Then You have no idea what a blessing is. To wake up in the morning , being alive its a...

If you are strong, torture not the weak,And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on...

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive.” Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered “a crime,...

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to...

Sin will take you where you didn’t plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay

May we be zealous for more of God.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient, that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice...

There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt...

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world’s disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with...