All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion’s curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th’ dustNor...

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it....

A husband or wife did not have the right either to demand sex from his or her spouse or to refuse it, and there was a catalogue of forbidden sexual practices, notably homosexuality, bestiality, certain...

The earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter

Do not be victim of life-negative religions. Be respectful to life, love and beauty.

Jerry Falwell said that the reason that September 11th happened, the reason that God allowed it to happen, was because of certain people in our country. People like, and I’m quoting, ‘the pagans,’ which is...

It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be...

Of course, we in the West like to pat ourselves on the back and say we’re more tolerant, and we are–but tolerance is not the same thing as acceptance. It just means, “We think you’re...

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

And don’t waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don’t adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as did my father, who was a Baptist minister. And I am not an...

Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It’s the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn...

Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption...

Cosmopolitan discourse…provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

When the Lord Jesus dealt with souls, His method was adapted to the need of the individual. However, it is remarkable that almost invariably He brought souls face to face with some one thing which...

I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter...

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

There is a single truth, it filters through different stories and languages because people come from different cultures and speak different languages. And this truth has manifested itself through millennia, in multiple ways. Different people...

Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey

Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own...

Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance with the divine purpose. If an analogy exists between the growth...

People didn’t really like McDonald’s, same as her mum didn’t really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that’ll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion...

Well, it just figures,” Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the ‘last days’ before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they...

Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory,...

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

[…] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if...

A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus...

Faith is the surrender of the mind, it’s the surrender of reason, it’s the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It’s our need to believe and to surrender our...

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend?-I can barely remember Lord’s Prayer.-A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type...

The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Meanwhile, on Earth, a completely different esoteric plane of existence, Father Chuck awoke with a jolt. This time he was sure of it. Oh dear, he’d heard the Voice of God.What had the Good Lord...

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

For love is a celestial harmonyOf likely hearts compos’d of stars’ concent,Which join together in sweet sympathy,To work each other’s joy and true content,Which they have harbour’d since their first descentOut of their heavenly bowers,...

Often we blame a region’s religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it’s also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity–not the decorous religion...

I’m an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you’re but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when...