Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved...

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a...

Religion can’t separate us, politics can’t divide us, wealth can’t classify us. We’re all one! We’re children of LOVE!

. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course of religion in its entire sweep not be...

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til...

spirits”, how easy was it for the materialistic and the spiritistic to agree? At heart, indeed, they were never very far apart in mood, though opposed in doctrine. The real cleavage was between the truly...

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so much better run, better led, and made for such better lives than the...

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.

Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um… What? River: Bible’s broken. Contradictions, false logistics – doesn’t make sense. Shepherd Book: No, no. You-you-you can’t… River: So we’ll...

The purpose of this life is to worship Allah the only God who has no partners or associates.And I (Allah) created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me (Alone)Quran Chapter 51...

Great Other” of transcendence.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.

What a wonderful world it would be if christians practiced Christianity.

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Where did that remark come from? Mormonism, as anyone can easily find out, is one of a number of Christian sects which came into being in the USA in the nineteenth century. It differs from...

Our Ancestors came to Australia, foraged for food in a rain forest where AM grew, ate the AM, and suffered the effects of muscimol hallucinations in a cave and drew paintings of a religious nature...

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.

Ninguna cosa es más propia a Dios que el amor, ni al amor hay cosa más natural que volver al que ama en las condiciones e ingenio del que es amado.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure to enforce these behaviors – God.

I had a lot of Hell that God needed to squeeze out of me, and believe me, sometimes when the Hell leaves you it screams at God on the way out. And when the pain...

Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.

Not a believer in the mosque am I,Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.I am not the pure amongst the impure,I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in the...

Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it…

Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth’s first...

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you...

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

If you ask the religious person “What do you believe in?” he will tell you about one thing. But if you ask him “What do you not believe in?” he will tell you about many,...

It’s so much more than a child’s story. – Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there’s no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it’s an artefact from times long gone.

Bean was tired of talking about this. She looked so happy when she talked about God, but he hadn’t figured it out yet, what God even was. It was like, she wanted to give God...

I don’t think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love...

…organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

Grumman provided the excuse and Nader provided the pain.

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Without it, religion will surely suffocate you.” Because so many of us are gasping for air and grasping for God, but fleeing from a kind of religious experience that has little to do with anything...

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but...

Religion + Good Works = Good WorksSolve for Religion.

High heels are a short (theist) woman’s (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor...

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour...