Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.

I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.

I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world.

Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!” The dog is saying, “Who are you to judge me? You human beings who’ve had...

I have used the illustration of soap and hot water; one can imagine he is actually watching the scrubbing process, seeing the proletarian Founder emerging all new and respectable under the brush of this capitalist...

One of, if not the only, driving motive that prompts the majority to think that science cannot explain everything and therefore we need to believe in God and religion is simply laziness and inability to...

This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire,...

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest....

Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine love, the divine splendour with goodwill toward others.And the bestial, namely the fanatical, the man on fire with God and anxious to stick...

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not...

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

As if when on a winter’s night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegns, a single sparrow should fly swiftly into the hall, and coming in at one door should instantly fly out through...

I don’t know if there’s a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn’t the kind of thing you can know. It isn’t a knowable item.) But...

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze and I won’t know what to say

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it’s not about Christ, it’s not Christianity.

Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the...

God not only loves the obedient – He enlightens them.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition’s arms.

Just as if Manetho’s “Aegyptiaca” or the second book of Aristotle’s “Poetics” reappeared, the simple fact that such a significant text as “The Gospel of Judas,” believed to be lost forever, comes back to light,...

For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands...

Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said “We want to try mortal existence, O God, Lucifer said it’s great!”—Bang, down we fall,...

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

Allah, hiçbir şeye gücü yetmeyen, başkasının malı olmuş bir köle ile, katımızdan kendisine verdiğimiz güzel rızıktan gizli ve açık olarak harcayan (hür) bir kimseyi örnek verir. Bunlar hiç eşit olurlar mı?…” (K. 16 Nahl 75)

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was...

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if God does exist and really created the world, as we well know, he...

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

But sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a bottle of whiskey the the hand . . .

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places...

The women cried with one another, and it didn’t seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

Newton Pulsifer had never had a cause in his life. Nor had he, as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since...

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our...

Akıl dediğimiz yerde bir düşünce oluşmasının olağanüstü güzelliğini kim tarif edebilir? Düşünce oluştuğu zaman, şu anda yazdığım düşünce gibi ölümsüzlük kazanma yeteneğine sahip olur, bu da insanoğlunun böyle bir özelliğe sahip tek ürünüdür.Bronz ve mermer...

I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his...

salvation is for the feeble, that’s what I think. I don’t want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

The term entheogen proposes a radical inversion of customary attitudes towards religion as faith or as something concerned with an ultimate reality or truth that is not a construct: ‘en-theo-gen’ is less ‘enthused by an...

Religion is for those who don’t want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.

Modern critics find much that is unlovely in the religion established by the Scottish reformers. It was Hebraic and Old Testament in its emphasis, stressing the thou-shalt-nots and the denunciation of sin. It was not...

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no...

Soal bersatu sungguhpun beraneka ragam bukanlah soal yang asing bagi agama termasuk dalam Islam. Antara agama dan kebudayaan terdapat interaksi, keadaan saling pengaruh mempengaruhi. Agama mempengaruhi kebudayaan dan kebudayaan mempengaruhi agama pula, terutama dalam manifestasinya....

Don’t follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: ‘I have made you too feeble to climb...

Whoever honoured the word of God shall be blessed.

I said to my children, ‘I’m going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don’t ever want you to forget that there are millions...

With respect to human nature, we believe that the idea of God’s image implies relationship and not any characteristic that would have left a mark in the paleoanthropological record.