Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.

I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life, he who blesses it and he who contemplates it. I loved the first...

[My] deep religiosity… found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, “I Can.” You’ll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.

I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.

ORTHODOX PARADOX Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated Kamil Ali

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: ‘If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that...

We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.

Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don’t know what-all....

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.

He’s not feeling well,” Clary said, catching at Simon’s wrist. “We’re going.””No,” Simon said. “No, I — I need to talk to him. To the Inquisitor.”Robert reached into his jacket and drew out a crucifix....

We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber’s targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state also targets such victims; during the 20th century, the...

At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

စင္စစ္ေတာ့လည္း တစ္ဦး၏အတြင္းစိတ္ကို တစ္ဦးသိႏိုင္ေအာင္သာ လူခပ္သိမ္းတို႔အား ဘယ္လူမ်ိဳး၏ ဘုရားျဖစ္ျဖစ္ တစ္ဆူေသာဘုရားက ဖန္တီးခဲ့မည္ဆိုလၽွင္ ဒီကမၻာၾကီး၏ အရွုပ္အေထြးမ်ားမွာ အနည္းႏွင့္အမ်ားေတာ့ ေျပလည္စရာအေၾကာင္း ရွိေပဦးမည္။

Yah, loe nggak perlu terlalu cemas. Selama iman loe masih kuat—atau paling tidak selama pikiran loe masih cukup waras—loe akan aman dari jeratan Lunarchist.

In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing… with no will of their...

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who’d just as soon dangle us all from a hook....

As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds “jiva” (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with “ajiva” (the lifeless, material aspect of this world) – perhaps not unlike that which science seeks to bind...

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new _we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the _we-cosmic-citizens_ are not to promote the _we-ness-in-sameness_, but rather the we-ness-in-alterity_.Unlike the solidarity-in-sameness, cosmopolitan...

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.

I don’t want to believe. I want to know.

The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our listlessness is to be out within the invigorating wind. The cure...

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

El obispo pasa a argüir que ‘el universo ha sido hecho y está gobernado por un propósito inteligente’ y que sería una falta de inteligencia el haber hecho al hombre para que pereciera. Hay muchas...

Islam is not man’s ultimate justification to do as he pleases–it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then...

She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god […], I’m willing to bet he’s an atheist too.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever’s prayer.

Professor Langdon,’ called a young man with curly hair in the back row, ‘if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?”Well, if you were to...

No one speaks for God – not even the prophets (who speak about God)

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had ‘given’ their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had...

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator – that’s beyond...

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the...

I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told “That’s offensive” as though those two words constitute an argument.

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of...

That was one of the inherent flaws of faith. Belief without knowing. But worse yet: belief without action. It could be good in its own right. Beautiful, even, when embraced, but that had to be...

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or...

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.