Right now, I am in Fallujah. I am in Darfur. I am on Sixty-third and Park having dinner with Ellen Barkin and Ron Perelman… Right now, I’m on Lafayette and Astor waiting to hit you...

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that evolve endlessly into other tales, stories have no end. They are...

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage....

One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.

I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that...

But a gentleman may embrace a doctrine without necessarily wearing the garb that goes with it, and he may wear the garb without necessarily comprehending the doctrine.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Seja bem-vindo a esta leitura, partilhe das suas emoções, viva as suas palavras, mas sobretudo seja feliz onde estiver, pois, Ele estará no seu coração.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs,...

It is happening now. All religions attempt to institute spiritual sensibility. The real spirituality within religion has to do with connection.

The quintessential emblem of religion and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core is the sacrifice of a child by a parent.Almost all religious faiths incorporate the myth of such a...

Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham`s Razor.

But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god’s existence, then...

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

De mens bedrijft het kwaad nooit zo hartstochtig en vol overgave als wanneer hij dat doet uit godsdienstige overtuiging.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it’s not how well you know the book, it’s how well you’re in alignment with the author.

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

No,” I said simply. “I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

…aconsejaría yo a los que tienen oración, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con otras personas que traten de lo mismo. Es cosa importantísima, aunque no sea sino ayudarse unos a otros con...

El Sufismo, de hecho, no es un sistema místico, ni una religión, pero un cuerpo de sabiduría.

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus’s being ridden by a sea horse……..

Las formas son vehículos e instrumentos, y los vehículos e instrumentos no pueden ser llamados buenos o malos sin un contexto.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its...

I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. … When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what...

The very fact that ‘the mystical’ is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political...

As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I stood beside President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the...

Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

Live each day with love; for it inspires the world around you to embrace love.

The “more” of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth—a...

Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother’s death was part of God’s plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times— his plan is to kill us...

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn’t get.

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they...

He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment...

And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for ‘the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the...

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough… [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.