Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.

That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the...

I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.

Why can’t we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the...

Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you’ll ever see, and it will be of no use to them because their goal is not to...

If all men are made in God’s reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image...

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

God didn’t give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn’t lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn’t speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity.

O comportamento ritual não só revela realidades práticas e mundanas, é também um teatro vivo da psicologia colectiva e uma das mais ricas expressões da ideologia e crenças – mentalidade – de uma sociedade. Afinal...

Si otras culturas han sobrevivido 10,000 años sin las reglas religiosas del islam, mormonismo, hinduismo o cristianismo, ,cuál es el propósito de las restricciones y la culpa religiosas?

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things....

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don’t make the mistake of thinking that the… cosmos… gives a damn one way or the other about...

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

And I didn’t think you believed in god or a heaven.”Having been here thirty-four days,’ I tell him, ‘I’ve changed my mind, Sydney.”Why’s that then?’ he smiles.’Well, if there’s a hell like this place, then...

People simplify ‘Apollonian’ into ‘mild’, and ‘calm’, and ‘cool’. But ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ are two sides of one coin–a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any...

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more...

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...

using religion to send a signal to the right that she is going to be OK on a number of issues when she gets on the court.

It is Satan’s constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and...

You heard him say it? ‘Pain’s the only evil I know about.’ You heard that?”The monk nodded solemnly.”And that society is the only thing that determines whether an act is wrong or not? That too?””Yes.””Dearest...

And then I stand in front of God’s Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, ‘You had your opportunities, boy. But did you listen? No. You went on heedlesly reading that garbagey...

I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of conflict. It only takes bad leadership for a country to go...

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Should one continue to follow the faith of a group that’s cast him out? Shouldn’t it stand to reason that if he was true to that faith that the group should have been true to...

Voodou isn’t like that. It isn’t concerned with notions of salvation and transcendence. What it’s about is getting things done. You follow me? In out system, there are many gods, spirits. Part of one big...

We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.

Shut your mouth, son of filth!” But Bartimaeus knew what it meant to be despised. He also knew that the chance of a lifetime was literally passing him by, so he called to the Savior...

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God’s art.

Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor.

Was this humanity? Was this nobility? Was this the Christian glory that presumed to hold itself above the heathen Turk? To suffer innocents be sacrificed on an altar of corruption, merely that a lofty family...

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible...

Ah well, I suppose that’s the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love.

It is not a religion. It is a relationship.

Humanity should be our Religion and every Human should be our God, This world should be our Temple and doing good to fellow Humans should be our Prayer.Quran Bible and Bhagwad Geeta all have this...

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

What I got out of church was a love of God, and a detestable feeling for the men standing in the way of Him—and the buffet in the banquet hall. Stand aside—I’m starving!

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have...

Many are one – this is the solution of maya (illusion). You lead a family life, be modest, otherwise you will have the sense of division. Don’t confuse the worldly life with this spiritual life....

Use wisdom when developing relationships and establishing new alliances. There are people who do not have pure motives as it pertains to developing relationships. They only want to be seen with you because they want...

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other’s throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of...

Mama had greeted him the traditional way that women were supposed to, bending low and offering him her back so that he would pat it with his fan made of the soft, straw-colored tail of...

Danger past, God is forgotten.

I’m as religious as the next man – which is to say I’ll keep in with the local parson for form’s sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I’ve...