If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One… I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins’s atheism as vacuous only because ‘atheist’ is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don’t believe […]. No...

Cherie.

(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to...

My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.

Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.Being without a religion...

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him...

GOD IS YOUR THOUGHTS

I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.” – Woody Allen

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds...

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work...

I don’t see,’ I said, ‘how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you’re young you’re so self-reliant. You don’t even need much religion.

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive...

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. … These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

It’s not about religion, it’s about relationship”.~R. Alan Woods [2006]

Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if...

gospel” was the very presence of Jesus himself, and the joy and fellowship that he brought to the poor.

It’s rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world...

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

Eyes glazed over as the great rice-wine parties in the highlands were recalled, parties that are no longer held since the arrival of the mission. Bario has become a good, clean, upstanding, sober, hard-working Christian...

‎Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers. It’s that simple. Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love...

Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

It seems the more we know, the less we believe.

A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.

Dicho del ProfetaLa Gente: En la gente se encuentra la familia de Dios.

Just because I don’t believe in YOUR God doesn’t mean I don’t believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.

Dicho del ProfetaEnseñanzaUna hora de enseñanza es mejor que una noche entera de oración.

I will analyze the actionsand appetites of men as if it were a question of lines, of planes,and of solids.

I’m a religious man,” he said. “I don’t believe in a particularGod, but even so one can have a faith, something beyondthe limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element ofbuilt-in faith, although it claims...

You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary...

Die Religionen Müsen alle Tolleriret werden und Mus der fiscal nuhr das auge darauf haben, das keine der andern abruch Tuhe, den hier mus ein jeder nach Seiner Fasson Selich werden!”[Rand-Verfügung des Königs zum Immediat-Bericht...

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

A halo is a cock ring for the soul.

Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been...

A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and other advanced societies. Supernatural faith increasingly belongs to the Third...

Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity’s own traditions of holy war and ‘texts of terror.’ Like Hinduism’s Mahabharata...

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin,...

As I learned more about choice, and looked over the extensive evidence in all of the cases I had testified in, I realized that what was happening in the FLDS was human trafficking-both for labor...

Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own?

The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to...

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.