In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they’d prefer.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

God liking them.” That’s the God they’ve conjured for themselves.

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe…

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone’s servants. The...

The free animalhas its dying always behind itand God in front of it, and its wayis the eternal way, as the spring flowing.Never, not for a moment, do we havepure space before us, where the...

We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected,...

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of...

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

You cannot know how many other miracles one sole miracle begets. She was not a savior. She did not confer salvation. She said we were to be the saviors. She said we know God only...

we left our home forty years ago. Despite the unhappy events we faced there, we left because our faith allowed it, because our belief in the Lord taught us that we would find a new...

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes...

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wantedTo lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free——The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,And it...

To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots – it’s biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen...

My mother was a good Catholic — she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary’s in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.

What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going on one’s knees and thanking Him.

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy...

The different religions confused me. Which was the right one? I tried to figure it out but had no success. It worried me. The different Gods – Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Mohammedan – seemed very particular...

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one’s judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool...

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they’d leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a...

Gods are but greater demons,” the Cishaurim said, “hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

There is only one religion – it is a way a man dies.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

You’ve seen what you’ve seen; you’ve felt what you’ve felt. Ideology is for people who don’t trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect’s beliefs are...

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

Dicho del ProfetaPráctica,Quiénes son los sabios? Aquéllos que ponen en práctica lo que saben.

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

Me llamas descreído (…) te llamaré verdadero creyente, pues el mejor contrapunto de una mentira es otra de igual magnitud.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

Todas las formas son limitadas; algunas de las limitaciones son el tiempo, el lugar, la cultura, el lenguaje.

Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually...

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

If my name were C. Ross, I’d definitely be religious.

We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and dont’s. ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Please do not ever think I am without you or you are without me, I live with you all the time.

Funny isn’t it, that such a large percentage of people believe in the possibility of ghosts yet scoff at stories about then; whereas less than a fifth of one percent think there actually may be...

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought...