I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on...

At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span-high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture, but...

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before...

True Christianity cuts across all other religions and creates its own culture.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the...

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men...

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God’s kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.

You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to ‘love thy neighbor,’ connecting us with random strangers and ‘friends’ from distant lands.

Peradaban memiliki sifat-sifat umum, internasional, dan diciptakan – Gia ‘Gokalp (1875-1924)

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are...

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

There is a light in every soul.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

The Saviour is a life-giving light.

Motivation ignites a flame of fire within our spirit.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.

The way religion makes thousands believe is itself a miracle.

Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents.

I have no interest in anything so frivolous as the bona fide religion or mankind’s pathetic debate over whose version of the church is correct. Circular arguments over the semantics of faith hold no interest...

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.–“Wanda

Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.

Some folks are happier not being saved.

No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of literary scholars and imaginations, no one can deny that each one...

One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it’s life that’s sacred. I talk about art and sex because they’re the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel...

He’s not a bad guy, John. It’s human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn’t have made, some flaw in me that he didn’t share, so he could believe...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly.

Coincidence is God’s way of being anonymous.

There are things people don’t understand. And they do what they want. There are rules that are not meant to be broken.

Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one...

For some, religion is the cement that seals shut their door on the world

I’m Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was supposed to love and forgive to be punished...

I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp...

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby’s diaper, forgive your boss’s temper, tolerate your spouse’s moodiness, you display...

When you aren’t sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that’s the basic principle of every faith.

Take the Holocaust for example: Why did God allow Hitler to kill millions of innocent Jews? Because God didn’t want to step on Hitler’s toes and interfere with his free will? That’s a pretty lame...

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God…It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

Las piedras eran más blandas y creyentes que el corazón de los hombres, y daban testimonio, en aquellos terribles momentos, de la impresión que la verdad suprema hacía sobre ellas.

Those who believe religion and politics aren’t connected don’t understand either.

Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk...

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home...

It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space… [who] made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so...