My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla, as long as possible, firstly because she did not want me to learn how to handle weapons, but also because the meetings that were...

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in...

No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers’ description. I don’t see how they could survive their own insanity. But it’s not...

On a day when secrets shall be outThe man shall have no power nor any helper.

hür” sayılırlar. Ancak ne var ki Kur’an’ın “hür” olarak tanımladığı insanlar dahi aslında gerçek anlamda hür (özgür) olmaktan uzaktırlar: gökten indiği söylenen buyrukların uygulayıcısıdırlar; yani özgür iradeye sahip olarak is görme olasılığından yoksundurlar. Çünkü Kur’an’a...

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?”I don’t know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption,...

Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth that all other ethical teachers proclaimed, and the light that they...

Dance,’ they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.’Pray,’ they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth’s brightnesses,and then stole off...

It is clear that something is seriously lacking in the way we humans are going about things. But what is it that we lack? The fundamental problem, I believe, is that at every level we...

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery’s offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem...

Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They’ve given up all for nothing. They’ve been cheated. They’re dupes.”Waddington reflected for a little while....

I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone...

Vimes, listening with his mouth open, wondered why the hell it was that dwarfs believed that they had no religion and no priests. Being a dwarf was a religion. People went into the dark for...

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play...

Uydurma olmayan ve içinde özgün ilahiliğin tüm kanıtlarını barındıran tek din saf ve basit deizmdir

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle...

…atheism leaves no room for excuses…

Am God”. When a person allows someone else’s dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward...

Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists

The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don’t deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore…. When the divine enters the world these days from outside...

Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there.

Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man’s freedom, but are rather realities based on freedom, taken on and modified by man....

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.