You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

A Cathedral Façade at MidnightAlong the sculptures of the western wallI watched the moonlight creeping:It moved as if it hardly moved at allInch by inch thinly peepingRound on the pious figures of freestone, broughtAnd poised...

The quickest way to alter an altar is not with a hammer, or even religious deconstruction, but with a typo.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks...

This is the mythosphere. It’s made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it’s constantly growing and moving as people...

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion...

In the desert, the only god is a well.

We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.

…the basic premise of religion—that if you live a good life, things will go well for you—is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet he had a life filled with...

In case of religion, if there is no scientific evidence of such a thing, you should not judge those who do not believe. And they should not judge you, reciprocally.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth...

If it’s God you’re worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn’t keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago.

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see...

Some say,” Scytale said, “that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward...

Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?

I believe in kindness and karma—which could make me a Buddhist. I believe in mystic healing and crystals’ powers—which could make me a witch. I believe in truth, honor, and forgiveness—which could make me a...

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities...

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and...

Alas, God’s poor ministers are just as much in the dark as we are. You must believe like old women believe, the ones that look like witches, who mumble to themselves in churches under the...

He died and rose again. Thats why now he lives in me and you. If you can use anything Lord you can use me. I am just a vessel.

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it’s the same wind that blows them.

Hukum Islam tidak mempunyai dasar ke-Islam-an (apalagi dasar Qur’an). Hukum Islam adalah hukum Rumawi-Barat, Bizantium, Parsi dan lain-lain yang dipadu, tetapi tidak pernah secara sempurna dengan suatu sistim persyaratan-persyaratan moral yang di “wahyu” kan. Ia...

I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan’s isn’t, and I’d like to be a Christian if I could be one...

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words...

Ben laughed. “You think all religions are scams, don’t you?””Yes, I suppose I do,” Epstein said. “But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.

The Lord is God. God is Holy.

Only a “dry as dust” religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

Motivation ignites a flame of fire within our spirit.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.

The way religion makes thousands believe is itself a miracle.

Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents.

I have no interest in anything so frivolous as the bona fide religion or mankind’s pathetic debate over whose version of the church is correct. Circular arguments over the semantics of faith hold no interest...

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.–“Wanda

Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.

Some folks are happier not being saved.

No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of literary scholars and imaginations, no one can deny that each one...

One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it’s life that’s sacred. I talk about art and sex because they’re the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel...

He’s not a bad guy, John. It’s human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn’t have made, some flaw in me that he didn’t share, so he could believe...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly.

Coincidence is God’s way of being anonymous.

There are things people don’t understand. And they do what they want. There are rules that are not meant to be broken.