I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

The rest of y’all are lost because you don’t have a personal relationship with God—our God.” But art engages you in the world, not just the world around you but the big world, and not...

I don’t belive in God. I believe in…Al Pacino.

The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

It’s simpler to believe in a miracle.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

We have all heard the expression, “the devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.

Dicho del ProfetaQuienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief’ is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which...

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’.

God is universal,” spluttered the priest.The imam nodded strong approval. “There is only one God.””And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is...

An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in our religiously...

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I’d pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except...

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear....

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God’s behalf. This ‘blasphemy of certainty’...

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to...

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

People who say we are just preaching “extreme grace” must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship...

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error,...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Köleliğin Resmen Kaldırılmış Olmasına Rağmen İslam Ülkelerinde Kölelik Kuruluşunu Geçerli Bilen Zihniyet H l Canlıdır.

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can...

El cristianismo no debía odiar a la magia; pero la ignorancia humana siempre tiene miedo de lo desconocido.

So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the genuine article. (Ask the Gnostics.)...

What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We’re encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we’re being told – or what...

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed.‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you mean. I think people have a right to believe in whatever they want. I...

She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder.”In the silence of the woods, Polly turned.”I can’t see her,” she said.”I am happy for you,” said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.”But I...

…Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty.

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative...

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker,” he continued, as though he had not heard her. “We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe,...

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise