There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a luminosity to it. Just one Christian of that type can dispel years worth...

Last year, we were sued for endorsing religion; this year, we’re being sued for limiting the right to express one’s religion, … We’re tracking a minefield, and this is not what the school district wants...

You don’t change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking...

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children...

No parent should have to bury a child … No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.I buried my...

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has...

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

I have considered the impudent accusations of Mr Dawkins with exasperation at his lack of serious scholarship. He has apparently not read the detailed discourses of Count Roderigo of Seville on the exquisite and exotic...

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world...

Don’t let your girlfriend cut your hair!

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier – he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim...

To be religious is to have an obligation to a particular religion, but to be truly spiritual is to have a commitment to your soul.”-Serena Jade

To see and feel one’s beloved naked for the first time is one of life’s pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or...

The human mind is an open network of complex softwares working together.

In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-“relaxed,” that is, burned at the stake. Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish...

Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

Once you’ve condoned faith in general, you’ve condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.

It all depends on what people you’re talking about helping. That’s the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet – they’re all so incredibly selfish.

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God’s Dream Society on earth, spreading out...

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I’m ridiculous; but when I exchange the word “wish” for the word “pray”, you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion...

The important place held by Jesus among the world’s six hundred million Moslems… and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively...

In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to me to underlie our apparently ordinary lives. Certainly that cast of mind had...

Inner Knowledge — You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination… or yours.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of good; but it may be that there are forms of evil...

Dios”.

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that’s a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on...

We in the West regard the universe as a creation of God; like an invention or a product. After he created the universe, God set himself to oversee it and manage it. We see God...

Love is my love, love is my religion.

Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation.

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the...

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe,” Max said. “And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Those ruffians, the Gods, shan’t have it all their own way,– her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all...

On the first day, man created God

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.

Being in relationship with Jesus, “God, The One and Only”, is the single cure for hatred …the only guarantee of salam or shalom!

All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our...

If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that’s exactly what we’ve done.