Eyes glazed over as the great rice-wine parties in the highlands were recalled, parties that are no longer held since the arrival of the mission. Bario has become a good, clean, upstanding, sober, hard-working Christian...

‎Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers. It’s that simple. Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love...

Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

It seems the more we know, the less we believe.

A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.

Dicho del ProfetaLa Gente: En la gente se encuentra la familia de Dios.

Just because I don’t believe in YOUR God doesn’t mean I don’t believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.

Dicho del ProfetaEnseñanzaUna hora de enseñanza es mejor que una noche entera de oración.

I will analyze the actionsand appetites of men as if it were a question of lines, of planes,and of solids.

I’m a religious man,” he said. “I don’t believe in a particularGod, but even so one can have a faith, something beyondthe limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element ofbuilt-in faith, although it claims...

You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary...

Die Religionen Müsen alle Tolleriret werden und Mus der fiscal nuhr das auge darauf haben, das keine der andern abruch Tuhe, den hier mus ein jeder nach Seiner Fasson Selich werden!”[Rand-Verfügung des Königs zum Immediat-Bericht...

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

A halo is a cock ring for the soul.

This is why being broken is so beautiful: being broken means you have cracks for love and light to shine through, gaps for the Godiverse to burrow and bloom, space to move from who you...

Faith doesn’t move mountains, Detective. It just obscures the view.

I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don’t they honor Jesus the same way?

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know...

…”science” as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical. This means that scientists rely on experiments, observations and calculations to develop theories...

Whatsoever i cannot relinquish to God is my god

In short, this or that behavior wasn’t good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was...

What people really believe doesn’t feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves...

laleli esirlerin” bu halini, ibret alınmak gereken bir şeymiş gibi Kur’an’da zikretmekten bile geri kalmamıştı

No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret...

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the...

I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death… . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless...

Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers–he’s a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite...

The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to...

Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been...

But it’s well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Tüm dini kurumlar, vahiy veya Tanrı kelamı adını verdikleri kutsal kitaplara sahiptir. Yahudiler, Tanrı Kelamları’nın Musa’ya Tanrı tarafından yüz yüze iletildiğini; Hıristiyanlar kendi Tanrı Kelamları’nın kutsal esinlenme yoluyla; Müslümanlar da Tanrı Kelamları’nın (Kuran) cennetten gelen...

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a...

I was brought up in the presence of the Bible, and I remember with affection what it was like to hold a dogmatic position on the statements of Christian belief. I would now describe myself...

Tell me,’ asked Stas, ‘what is a wicked deed?’ ‘If anyone takes away Kali’s cow,’ he answered after a brief reflection, ‘that then is a wicked deed.’ ‘Excellent!’ exclaimed Stas, ‘and what is a good...

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

That’s who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself. Immortal, he never has to be replaced. Human, he could bear human sins....

The soul … has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to...

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.