You believe in God?” demanded Billy Karma.”I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods,” answered Argyle proudly. “That puts me thirty-six ahead of you.””It makes you a pagan.””It makes you a man of limited vision,”...

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.”(Marco)

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have…

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him;...

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn’t sin but wants to sin.

Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones...

Religion and ethics were not always – or even frequently – mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than...

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true “peace...

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’?

Accident is nature’s way of starting a design; design is a man’s way of looking at the accidents.

I’m dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ. We worshiped a God named Sashatiba, who had five eyes, including one on the Adam’s apple.

Which was, said Old Mock, one of the chief attractions of eschatological religions. When one’s world was impermanent, difficult endeavors, like procuring justice or balancing the ecology, need never be attempted. One need only make...

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Did Jesus Christ, he asked, suspect that someday his church would spread to the farthest corners of Earth? Did Jesus Christ, he asked, ever have what we, today, call an idea of the world? Did...

happening.” Depending on what’s happening in our lives, we’re either happy or sad. It’s based on pure luck and good fortune.

Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.

Die Kirche muss erkennen, dass sich die Erde weiter dreht. Nachdem wir es immerhin geschafft haben, zu akzeptieren, dass sie sich überhaupt dreht

Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono.

Dicho del ProfetaAmor,Crees que amas a tu Creador? Ama primero a tus semejantes

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

The problem is that one man’s superstition is another man’s religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, … while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as...

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If...

Jika agama kalian merupakan rahmat bagi alam semesta, kalian bisa menggunakannya sebagai senjata untuk menyejahterakan orang lain. Jika orang lain selamat, selamatlah alam semesta.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, ‘Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit...

Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement...

Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One...

A piece of paper doesn’t make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?

We’re not so different, you and I. Sure, we may have different religious beliefs, political outlooks, sexual orientations, economic viewpoints, and artistic/literary/culinary tastes, but deep down we both want the same thing: To be loved...

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man’s mental scope.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable...

Her ne kadar Osmanlı devleti 1908 Anayasa’sı (1293 Kanun-u Es sî) ile köleliği saf dışı kılmış olmakla beraber, bu kurulusun gerçek anlamda ortadan kalkması ve Türk topraklarından silinip atılması Atatürk’ün yarattığı Türkiye Cumhuriyeti sayesinde olmuştur....

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the...

If there is a God who made us and we did wrong before His eyes—as George says—at least we did wrong only because we were as God made us, and I do not think that...

Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher...

The Lord doesn’t want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone...

Treat all men alike…. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who...

Wizards don’t believe in gods in the same way that most people don’t find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they’re there, they know they’re there for a purpose, they’d probably agree...