For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

We have all heard the expression, “the devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.

Dicho del ProfetaQuienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief’ is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which...

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’.

God is universal,” spluttered the priest.The imam nodded strong approval. “There is only one God.””And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is...

An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in our religiously...

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I’d pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except...

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear....

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God’s behalf. This ‘blasphemy of certainty’...

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to...

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

People who say we are just preaching “extreme grace” must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship...

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error,...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Köleliğin Resmen Kaldırılmış Olmasına Rağmen İslam Ülkelerinde Kölelik Kuruluşunu Geçerli Bilen Zihniyet H l Canlıdır.

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can...

El cristianismo no debía odiar a la magia; pero la ignorancia humana siempre tiene miedo de lo desconocido.

In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress...

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.

It’s sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not...

There are random moments – tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing...

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.””That’s what my grandmother used to say,” said Brutha automatically.”Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable...

The doctor’s wife wasn’t a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too...

Tek Tanrı’ya inanırım, başka bir şeye değil; bu yaşamdan sonra da mutluluk olmasını umut ederim.

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world...

I mean, it’s one thing saying you’ve got the best god, but sayin’ it’s the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least...

Spirituality is not a religion or a trend—it is a lifestyle. It is a lifestyle of awareness that combines the understanding of faith, body, mind, and soul, allowing us to live modern-day enlightened lives in...

Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

… our generation hasn’t made any meaningful contribution to the field. We have promoted atheism, displayed agnosticism (which amounts to an ambiguous shoulder shrug), or, in most cases, been eerily silent.

Tiesą, kaip tu ir sakei, dažniausiai lydi stiprus skausmas. O beveik niekas netrokšta skausmingos tiesos. Žmonėms reikia gražios ir jaukios pasakos, kuri leistų jiems bent truputį giliau pajusti savo gyvenimo prasmę. Būtent todėl atsiranda religijos.

those who have loved are those that have found God

I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn’t...

All the different religions are really like different paths leading to the same goal. So there is no question of prescribing any rigid set of principles or practices. Everyone has got the right to follow...

We need to keep domesticating religion. It’s such an unpredictable beast.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us…. More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents...

Holy communication, Holy life.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can’t relate to it. I think most people got into ‘cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all...