Religion equals logic… but the logic of the human mind can’t perceptible it

A culture which doesn’t believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos...

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others,...

The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. ‘God had made us master organizers of...

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great...

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating...

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

All religions are true but none are literal.

Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don’t you think?

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

Lyall felt he could not say which of two things was harder to put up with, the Abbot’s conversational style, with its bland coherence and assumption of severely limited cogitative powers in the hearer, or...

There either is a god or there is not; there is a ‘design’ or not.

Woman is the light of God.

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of...

Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes...

When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe...

The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees. For hours a day, the saint and his followers would meditate on God....

[…] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is...

The God I believe in isn’t short on cash, mister.

After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, “When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, ‘That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in...

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas...

What,” “how,” “when,” etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask “why” is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.

Also, always encourage ‘being good’ over ‘doing good.’ Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. ‘Being good’ is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can...

In Gilead, the narrator’s friend’s son describes himself not as an atheist but in “state of categorical unbelief.” He says, “I don’t even believe God doesn’t exist, if you see what I mean.” I pointed...

The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.

The passion of steeped leaves and stewed broth is a philter that triumphs in our veins. It is our heritage, it is our religion, it is the glory of our being. It is our honour...

A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.

People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you a bit more when you’re alone in a foreign land. You certainly worry...

Don’t creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the ‘human leg and foot bones,’ rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with ‘ape leg and foot bones?’...

La libertad nos mantiene volando alto, pero la contienda destruye nuestra habilidad de volar.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Si otras culturas han sobrevivido 10,000 años sin las reglas religiosas del islam, mormonismo, hinduismo o cristianismo, ,cuál es el propósito de las restricciones y la culpa religiosas?

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things....

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don’t make the mistake of thinking that the… cosmos… gives a damn one way or the other about...

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

And I didn’t think you believed in god or a heaven.”Having been here thirty-four days,’ I tell him, ‘I’ve changed my mind, Sydney.”Why’s that then?’ he smiles.’Well, if there’s a hell like this place, then...

People simplify ‘Apollonian’ into ‘mild’, and ‘calm’, and ‘cool’. But ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ are two sides of one coin–a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any...

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more...

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...

using religion to send a signal to the right that she is going to be OK on a number of issues when she gets on the court.

It is Satan’s constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and...

You heard him say it? ‘Pain’s the only evil I know about.’ You heard that?”The monk nodded solemnly.”And that society is the only thing that determines whether an act is wrong or not? That too?””Yes.””Dearest...

And then I stand in front of God’s Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, ‘You had your opportunities, boy. But did you listen? No. You went on heedlesly reading that garbagey...