faith means super confidence

This division is not one by religious affiliation, rather it separates the extremists and the peace-loving people.Therefor I’m optimistic: now a humanistic Islam is getting shaken awake. Moderate Islam needs now to finally break cover...

We do not teach and practice community of goods but we teach and testify the Word of the Lord, that all true believers in Christ are of one body (I Cor. 12:13), partakers of one...

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify...

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people...

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man’s image; so that there can be no church whose central...

It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

The rash assertion that “God made man in His own image” is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel...

Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other...

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

In our towns and cities they will continue to be born, in our communities they will go on to be nurtured & radicalised & from within our neighbourhoods they will terrorise & murder our citizens...

DEMONS MUST BE RELIGIOUSDue to exorcism based on each religion’s practices

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think...

Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts...

Define the word exist, and you’ll know whether God exists.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal… In truth, man is incurably foolish....

So you are Catholic? Didn’t know that.I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don’t worry about the meaning of...

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion...

Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

I remembered Robyn telling me the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and how they’d survived: when the King chucked them in the furnace and an angel or someone went in with them. The furnace...

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

the gods play nofavorites.

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.””Ah…quite. You are a man of acute insight.””That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.

So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they’ll send rain and good crops and the whole works? And nothing bad will ever happen. Right.’ Prayer had always struck me...

Believe in God if you want to, not because your are asked to

See, this is new”?It has been already in the ages before us.11 There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembranceof later things yet to be among those who come after.

cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus’ teaching and ministry, without any...

Sukarno seorang diri, Gandhi seorang diri, bahkan para nabi seperti Isa dan Muhammad pun seorang diri. Para bijak seperti Lao Tze dan Siddharta juga seorang diri. Namun, merekalah yang mengubah dan membuat sejarah.

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don’t be afraid, you don’t fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should...

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious–for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can...

‘Shoot the wounded… what we do to people who are the most vulnerable… we ‘shoot the wounded.’ As if they haven’t suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts.”...

I mean, whatWhat if no one’s watchingWhat if when we’re deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it’s just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head

Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex … without the guilt.

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them...

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I’ll never understand God.My heart tells me I’m not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]

[…] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy […]

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

It was… the Great White God de-throned, I suppose. Because we did, we quite unselfconsciously assumed we were the measure of all things. That was how we approached them. And suddenly I saw that we...