The destiny of your soul is not predicated upon acceptance of a specific dogma that happens to be “correct.” A loving God does not dole out eternal condemnation because one has selected the wrong doctrine...

You are one woman in an endless line of women who were chosen to love more passionately than others, be committed to justice more fervently than others, and seek our Maker’s higher expressions more reflectively...

Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction.

Without the support from religion–remember, we talked about it–no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so...

You can disagree with another person’s opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can’t disagree with their experience.

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to...

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d’y croire.

Let’s say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out...

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What’s the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep?...

But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And...

It seems to me some people just go around lookin’ to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is...

comfort,” so in my reply I addressed that first. I said that I didn’t think it was comfort I was seeking, or comfort that I’d found. Look, I said to her, as a rush of...

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts...

Nothingness…there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed…

For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the...

The common argument is that it clearly contradicts the Koran, which says there should not be compulsion in religion.

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial

Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday...

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

Haven’t you noticed that men struggle every day to correct the defects of my work? What is a plane or a diving suit but an emendation to my work? Even those who worship me spend...

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to...

Bukti kebesaran Tuhan adalah selalu ada “pipa kapiler paralel” pada setiap perbedaan kepercayaan.

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

I’m an atheist. I wouldn’t even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!

No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful...

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does...

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. “NO?

The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuration of hospitality, welcoming others,...

Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.

She’d never been religious. She hadn’t allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

All have the ability to perceive and live in dimensional synthesis, yet they spend time with the sciences trying to separate these realms, splitting the worlds into minutia, seeking the god particle. They are searching...

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an “Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition” right after he finishes putting...

The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an...

Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a...

Ci sono divergenze di natura teologica su… Vediamo, per esempio sulla raffigurazione latina del purgatorio. – C’è qualcuno a cui frega una cippa di minchia della raffigurazione latina del purgatorio? – reagisce Dio, versandosi dell’altro...

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import – what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature...