Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations...

We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the “hour” of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving...

When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you...

İslam Ülkelerinde Kölelik 20. Yüzyıla Kadar Sürmüş ve Ancak Batı Dünyasının Zorlamalarıyla Sona ermiştir

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

If that were God’s plan, it’s a bad bargain; I don’t want to have to deal with a God like that…My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple...

[Sire,] je n’ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse.”En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l’univers ne indique pas Dieux.

The entire universe cannot stop a man that God has approved his appointed time

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs...

Her insan kendisini yaratanın kendisi olmadığının bir kanıtıdır; ne babası, ne dedesi ne de ataları kendilerini yaratmışlardır; ne ağaç, ne bitki ne de hayvanlar kendi kendilerini yaratmıştır; tüm bu kanıtlara bakarak sonsuzlukta var olan ilk...

Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that we are distant from God and then seek to make that distance into...

What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

Spirituality is a universal currency. It is part of every religion, every faith, and every person. Everybody has a belief system.

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

Be this as it may, an increasing number of us find that something is missing . . . something vague . . . something—dare I say—spiritual. Even those of us who scoff at religious and...

Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.

Your Mercy is my social status.

..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell...

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it’s of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don’t need...

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

I’ve still got the bible, I stole that night from my revival. From some hotel on 35.

May God continue to give us strength for our daily work.

We are all beautiful creation of God.

In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a moral code and at worst social etiquette.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Religion does not care about your purpose or determination; it just wants you to live like hell.

There are three stupids:A woman who thinks she does not deserve more, a man who believes he is superior, and a God who considers himself always right.

We are not evil. We don’t harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is...

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'” said the sorrowful girl. “‘What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society, and morality is an evolutionary adaptation. Period.

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic...

Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.

God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.

Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feelWill I dance for you Jesus or in awe of you be stillWill I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fallWill I sing...

Vatan ve millet, vatan ve millet oldukları için sevilir; bir din, din olarak münakaşa edilir, ret veya kabul edilir, yoksa hayatımıza getirecekleri kolaylıklar için değil…

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it’s a choice.

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is...

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God’s Wisdom did not exist.

I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.

They’s a heap more to God’s will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit’s God’s will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin’…” He laughed. “I reckon I ain’t...

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs...

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.