An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.

Women aren’t mean the way that men are. They’re full of life and they’re like God in that way.

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

By Hays’ reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical...

Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by ‘truth’. But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than...

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame and went in continually.And the angels were puzzledTo know why the people went thus,And why they stayed so long...

And here’s something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren’t answered. What do you say? “Well, it’s God’s will.” “Thy Will Be Done.” Fine, but if it’s God’s will, and He’s going...

Do you think heaven’s like that?Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we’re not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.

I don’t know449that much about the Bible, other than it waswritten thousands of years ago, which dilutesits relevance. However, I know its faithfulfollowers tend to cherry-pick verses to suittheir needs, the same way they cherry-pickwords...

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than...

The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition...

If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.

Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt...

If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not...

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.

Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God’s family.(Muhammad the Prophet)

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.

I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.

I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world.

Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!” The dog is saying, “Who are you to judge me? You human beings who’ve had...

I have used the illustration of soap and hot water; one can imagine he is actually watching the scrubbing process, seeing the proletarian Founder emerging all new and respectable under the brush of this capitalist...

One of, if not the only, driving motive that prompts the majority to think that science cannot explain everything and therefore we need to believe in God and religion is simply laziness and inability to...

This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire,...

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest....

Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine love, the divine splendour with goodwill toward others.And the bestial, namely the fanatical, the man on fire with God and anxious to stick...

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not...

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

As if when on a winter’s night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegns, a single sparrow should fly swiftly into the hall, and coming in at one door should instantly fly out through...

I don’t know if there’s a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn’t the kind of thing you can know. It isn’t a knowable item.) But...

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze and I won’t know what to say

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it’s not about Christ, it’s not Christianity.

Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the...

God not only loves the obedient – He enlightens them.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition’s arms.

Just as if Manetho’s “Aegyptiaca” or the second book of Aristotle’s “Poetics” reappeared, the simple fact that such a significant text as “The Gospel of Judas,” believed to be lost forever, comes back to light,...

For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands...

Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said “We want to try mortal existence, O God, Lucifer said it’s great!”—Bang, down we fall,...

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

Allah, hiçbir şeye gücü yetmeyen, başkasının malı olmuş bir köle ile, katımızdan kendisine verdiğimiz güzel rızıktan gizli ve açık olarak harcayan (hür) bir kimseyi örnek verir. Bunlar hiç eşit olurlar mı?…” (K. 16 Nahl 75)

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was...

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if God does exist and really created the world, as we well know, he...

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.