The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a...

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers,So your surroundings become a garden.Don’t sow thorns; for they will prick your feet.We are all one body,Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.

Are You still there?” and suddenly all was made well between them.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a...

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.

He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day when we were studying the laws of repentance together, the lodger burst from his room. “What!”...

Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one’s guard to be offered sex under the...

Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.

When I speak about Jesus Christ, I do not speak about Christianity. Christianity has basically nothing to do with Jesus. The spirit of Christ can not be organized. Then it will not liberate you.Christ is...

A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude, that if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of...

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact,...

In BANKSY we trust.

Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either,...

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is...

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal’s wager. But on second thoughts it seems...

Ia kembali teringat nasihat kiai Lukman saat masih di pesantren dulu, “Eling-Elingo yo Ngger, endahe wanojo iku sing dadi jalaran batale toponing poro santri lan satrio agung

The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do. Which religion, anyway? The one in which we...

Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for...

favored” by God. But what a strange blessing. It brought with it none of the ideals or goals that so consume our daily striving. Today many assume that those whom God favors will enjoy the...

He – and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

…I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty–guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard–but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and...

On peut rire de tout mais pas avec n’importe qui.

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my...

Faith moves mountains. Religion strip-mines them.

Qu’importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l’éternité en enfer, si c’est ta volonté.

Bukan mudah untuk berubah… dari tanpa arah ke sejadah, dari tepi jalanan ke sujud menghadap Tuhan.

It’s not arrogant to say that you can’t figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It’s not arrogant to know that there’s no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who...

I believe God is the Geometry of life

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline… We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain....

Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you – From the film Sophie Scholl

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and...

The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” – I don’t think psychedelics can address that definitively, but there is another god, a goddess, the goddess of biology, the goddess of the coherent...

From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all...

God’s Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God’s people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are...

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

El Sendero no se encuentra en el rosario, la alfombra de oración y el manto”.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can’t prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the...

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. ‘Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah’ – Non-injury is the highest religion.

Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, ‘Let’s not talk about that. That’s man’s stupidest idea.’ — Nikša Gligo (1972)

I know, I know,” Moore said. “Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean something else?” Shook his head. “What an awfully arrogant thing. What if faiths are exactly what they...