I believe if I Piss God off one more time. I’ll be eligible to win a free Bible

Yoga is not an exotic exercise or religion, but an integration process of the well-being of the body and mind.

If we talk about the living oracles and want to pay respect to them, how shall we do this? Shall we do it by never reading their words-by paying not attention to that which they...

There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking...

Mucizenin doğanın işleyişinden tamamen bağımsız olduğunu düşünürsek, doğanın onu gerçekleştirmek için kendi işleyişinin dışına çıkmak zorunda kalacağını da kabul etmemiz gerekir; bir mucize gördüğünü söyleyen biriyle karşılaştığımızda, aklımıza yanıtı çok basit olan şu soru gelir:...

It fits my experience of Him.

You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it.

If I didn’t think of it, it has no bearing on my life.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn’t, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can...

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They say ‘Consumerism’.

What’s wrong with being naked?”–Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston

But here I’d like to add to what the Tempter’s Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing...

Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.

I know one thing you don’t. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn’t teach you that at school.’Rose didn’t answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her....

They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won’t manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience...

Mackenzie, the truth shall set you free and the truth has a name; he’s over in the woodshop right now covered in sawdust. Everything is about him. And freedom is a process that happens inside...

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let...

Let it be stated clearly that mysticism is an a-rational type of experience, and in some degree common to all men.It is an intuitive, self-evident, self-recognized knowledge which comes fitfully to man. It should not...

God is a book I can no longer read.

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism – as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: ‘Those who...

Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or which deity works for whom. Sincere religion and tested science are...

most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the...

You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he’s a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done....

Intinya, bagimana sembahyang itu bisa mendorong seluruh hatimu untuk menolong orang lain. Itulah inti pergi ke masjid, gereja, wihara, kuil, dan sebagainya.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone’s beliefs as seriously as they do.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people…

Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with...

In the court of reason man is always a claimant and God is always a respondent. The original intention of the reason for creation of God is to make Him as a respondent as and...

I’m such an alcoholic that I go to church just for communion.

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.

Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

You don’t need to change who you are to praise the God.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and seek to harry him and bully him into some condition pleasing to themselves....

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith.” (Br. Cadfael)

Let’s say that the God the Christians pray to is real. He actually exists. But this God is the same as the one that the Jews pray to and the same as the one that...

Tres cosasTres cosas no pueden recuperarse:La flecha una vez que ha partido del arcoLa palabra dicha precipitadamenteLa oportunidad perdida.(Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)

I don’t know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I’ve come to distrust the words of those who have presumed...

These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and holy ghost. They ate crackers and wine or grape juice, believing...

the appearance” of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels