Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory,...

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson...

The manifestation of miracles without the maturity of saints through the teaching of God’s word is a sign of deception but where there is the constant teaching of the truth of God’s word the move...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary...

Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. This allegory of a physical...

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

God’s will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.

Our unfathomable evolutionary past paints a picture vastly more immense than any spiritual story could ever create because it is raw and real, violent, dirty and beautiful—and because of that—it’s spectacular!

That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for...

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a...

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers,So your surroundings become a garden.Don’t sow thorns; for they will prick your feet.We are all one body,Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.

Are You still there?” and suddenly all was made well between them.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a...

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.

He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day when we were studying the laws of repentance together, the lodger burst from his room. “What!”...

Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one’s guard to be offered sex under the...

Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.

When I speak about Jesus Christ, I do not speak about Christianity. Christianity has basically nothing to do with Jesus. The spirit of Christ can not be organized. Then it will not liberate you.Christ is...

A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude, that if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of...

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact,...

In BANKSY we trust.

Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either,...

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is...

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal’s wager. But on second thoughts it seems...

Ia kembali teringat nasihat kiai Lukman saat masih di pesantren dulu, “Eling-Elingo yo Ngger, endahe wanojo iku sing dadi jalaran batale toponing poro santri lan satrio agung

The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do. Which religion, anyway? The one in which we...

Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for...

favored” by God. But what a strange blessing. It brought with it none of the ideals or goals that so consume our daily striving. Today many assume that those whom God favors will enjoy the...

He – and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

…I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty–guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard–but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and...

On peut rire de tout mais pas avec n’importe qui.

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my...

Faith moves mountains. Religion strip-mines them.

Qu’importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l’éternité en enfer, si c’est ta volonté.

Bukan mudah untuk berubah… dari tanpa arah ke sejadah, dari tepi jalanan ke sujud menghadap Tuhan.

It’s not arrogant to say that you can’t figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It’s not arrogant to know that there’s no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who...

I believe God is the Geometry of life

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline… We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain....

Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you – From the film Sophie Scholl

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and...

The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” – I don’t think psychedelics can address that definitively, but there is another god, a goddess, the goddess of biology, the goddess of the coherent...