Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true...

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.Raspberry Jam

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.”I understand the concept. It’s just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.”Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness . . .”Exactly!’ Chartrand...

Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have...

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren’t a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind…

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going

We do not have bodies—we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.

It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the...

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.

Evrensel inançları yetkin bir biçimde meydan okuyan antik kitaplardan biri Eukleides’in Geometri’nin Temelleri kitabıdır; kitap, yazarından bağımsız olarak zaman, mek n ve koşullara bağlı her şeyin açıkça tanımlanabileceğinin bizzat kanıtıdır. Kitapta yer alan konuların tümü...

So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don’t trust things you can...

I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they are its masters.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip...

One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of...

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. “May I ask you a question?””Yes.””Have you ever thought you were Christ?””I can’t say that I have. But I have considered that God was...

Mi única política y religión es el amor.

Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.

As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they’re egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of a 1980s male model. Flailing his arms, he urges them to...

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is...

wrong believers” who not infrequently they saw themselves justified in the killing.

We have to believe in free-will. We’ve got no choice.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in...

I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones – by faith...

Najbolji medju vama je onaj koji je najbolji prema svojoj porodici, a ja sam od vas najbolji prema svojoj porodici. Zene nije postivao osim onaj ko je plemenit, a nije ih ponizavao niko osim zlikovac.

If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone.

As for mother Eve – I wasn’t there and can’t deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion’s share of keeping it...

… every moment of our life has a purpose, that every action of ours, no matter how dull or routine or trivial it may seem in itself, has a dignity and a worth beyond human...

So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions...

It knows you.Every soul is connected to it in the same way-nobody is closer farther.Doesn’t matter what your beliefs were in that life or any of them.Only the soul can create distance between itself and...

He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service–the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back...

I asked Raghav, as we were looking over the wasteland, if the Muslims they burnt would beg for their lives. “Yes they would say, Have mercy on us. But we were filled with such hate;...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech,...

To me, my husband was my son’s murderer. He was also my daughter’s molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every...

Sama juga kalau untuk contoh lelaki. Kalau baca Al – Quran hari-hari, tapi main bola nampak kepala lutut,tak cukup balik lagi.Atau kalau solat lima waktu sehari semalam tapi pegang tangan anak dara orang bukan mahram...

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

I am fascinated by religion.That’s a completely different thing from believing in it.

Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply...