Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious...

If I had said that I didn’t want to know if Christianity was true, David would not have pursued our conversations any further. He had long before realized that people who want to avoid the...

Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede belief. But the entire...

Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. Their belief is based on faith, not just in the teachings of the religion but also in...

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through...

That’s the funny thing about religion: it doesn’t matter what you say, you’re going to upset someone.

I’m through with you. Yes, I am going to put you down. From now on, I am my own God. I am going to live by the rules I se for myself. I’ll discard everything...

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

That He cares.

You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts...

I don’t care what is written,” Meyer Landsman says. “I don’t care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son’s throat...

Eskimo: “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” Priest: “No, not if you did not know.” Eskimo: “Then why did you tell me?

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

Have you ever had God lay hold of you in the wee hours and reduce you until you had ‘Nothing left to do but fling/Care aside and simply cling?’ (Crowded to Christ, p. 29).

Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.

I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because...

The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to church but they cannot even manage the condition of their own souls. They take pride to state the...

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust...

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true...

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.Raspberry Jam

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.”I understand the concept. It’s just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.”Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness . . .”Exactly!’ Chartrand...

Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have...

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren’t a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind…

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going

We do not have bodies—we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.

It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the...

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.

Evrensel inançları yetkin bir biçimde meydan okuyan antik kitaplardan biri Eukleides’in Geometri’nin Temelleri kitabıdır; kitap, yazarından bağımsız olarak zaman, mek n ve koşullara bağlı her şeyin açıkça tanımlanabileceğinin bizzat kanıtıdır. Kitapta yer alan konuların tümü...

So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don’t trust things you can...

I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they are its masters.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip...

One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of...

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. “May I ask you a question?””Yes.””Have you ever thought you were Christ?””I can’t say that I have. But I have considered that God was...