Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

A struggle is a preparation for what is yet to come.-Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes

communicates” with you thru a book (bible).Does that make sense?

I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.””I don’t say homosexuality’s an abomination, Mr. President, the bible does.””Yes it does. Leviticus-“”18:22″”Chapter in verse. I wanted to ask you a couple questions while I had you...

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Can omniscient God, whoKnows the future, findThe Omnipotence toChange His future mind?

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn’t he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why’s he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there’s one...

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church” said Ceas, “When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.

How ought we to love God, Father?” he asked in a whisper.”By loving men, my son””And how ought we to love men?” “By trying to guide them along the right path””And what is the right...

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world that of effects, and as effects are the repositories of their causes, the...

Symbolism scares the people who believe there’s a valid substitute for emotion

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men...

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are...

It’s all—let’s use a very specific word here—miraculous. You, me, love, quarks, sex, chocolate, the speed of light—it’s all miraculous, and it always has been.

karmic reassignment”) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: ‘In different times,...

Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as...

…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about...

The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a ‘furniture...

I don’t assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me

In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith… these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is...

It is suspected, by some, that spiritual beings are extremely jealous of the natural world because they are nothing more than a figment of the imagination. This might explain their compulsive and obsessive behavior in...

Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially...

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.

Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.

And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as...

How could you determine a man’s intention if you didn’t speak his language or share his beliefs? She’d happily embarked on a study of ancient Egyptian religion but had no curiosity about Islam, which seemed...

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and...

For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is...

When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

TRIAD supernal, both super-God and super-good, Guardian of the Theosophy of Christian men, direct us aright to the super-unknown and super-brilliant and highest summit of the mystic Oracles, where the simple and absolute a!nd changeless...

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own

Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.

We…believe that art is religious, because it is one of man’s highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

The Art of Living is to be yourself. It is to be true to yourself. The Art of Living is learning to live with love, awareness and truth. Meditation is the way to learn The...

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, “I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will...

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.

You believe in God?” demanded Billy Karma.”I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods,” answered Argyle proudly. “That puts me thirty-six ahead of you.””It makes you a pagan.””It makes you a man of limited vision,”...