I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he...

There is going to come a time when we have to accept who we are without the assistance of religion. That will be the dawn of true faith. We leave the big decisions to invisible...

Oenone had found the chapel by accident, and was not certain what kept drawing her back to it. She was not a Christian. Few people were anymore, except in Africa, and on certain islands of...

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature–: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

Catholic, Episcopalian, I won’t have sects with you.

God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one

Let’s say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don’t know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to...

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency...

Fatima benim bir parçamdır, kim ki Fatima’ya kötülük eder, tıpkı bana (kötülük etmiş gibi) olur; kim ki onu hoşnut eder, beni hoşnut etmiş olur.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God’s joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense...

Your RELIGION does not make you a good person. Your BEHAVIOR does.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I’m sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Humanity’s relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation – setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run –...

God’s gifts put men’s best dreams to shame.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know...

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

Humanity is its own worst enemy. What chance do any other species have?Survival is the parchment upon which the Law of Nature is inscribed.And what I’ll find was always mine.And what I’ll say, I’ve said...

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Malgré les fanatiques, il serait extrêmement dangereux d’importer en France la thèse d’un «choc de civilisations» entre le monde musulman et nous. Ne faisons pas de l’Islam le miroir où toutes nos difformités s’effacent. Ne...

If materials things only are what you’re talking about when you say ,” I’m blessed”. Then You have no idea what a blessing is. To wake up in the morning , being alive its a...

If you are strong, torture not the weak,And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on...

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive.” Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered “a crime,...

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to...

Sin will take you where you didn’t plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay

May we be zealous for more of God.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient, that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice...

There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt...

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world’s disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with...

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can’t raise my voice you can’t raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists.

If I don’t believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.

I’m just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?… I’m not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don’t believe. I don’t even think...

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.

My new and improved Golden Rule: Dom unto others as you would have God Dom unto you.

Music awaken our soul.

Tarnauk Dievui arba šėtonui. Tik neužmiršk – net ir šventieji klydo, ir šėtono tarnai išsidavė, nes žmogus iš prigimties nėra neklystantis.

wholly other,” a discourse that any with the ears to hear knows has a Scriptural provenance and a Scriptural resonance. (“A Prologue”, Journal of Philosophy and Scripture 1.1, Fall 2003, p. 1).

Do you believe in God, doctor?”No – but what does that really mean? I’m fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I’ve long ceased finding that original.

Yeshua was a feminist. A feminist is a person who is in favor of, and promotes, the equality of women with men, who advocates and practices treating women primarily as human persons (as men are...