Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Dicho del ProfetaIntimidadQuien invade la intimidad de las personas, las corrompe.

…the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting have as their distinguishing characteristic that they do very little lifting at their own bootstraps, and less at any other man’s....

Beyond egoistic interests there cannot be any religious belief, any faith, too. In most cases, if not all, people believe in God for the reason of fear, but not love. They fear to be punished...

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart – all else is wind in comparison.

Cuando una creencia se transforma en algo más que un instrumento, estás perdido. Permanecerás perdido hasta que aprendas para qué es realmente la ‘creencia’.

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy…walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, ‘Business as usual.’ But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a...

I don’t know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He’s just an asshole, creating this world full of human suffering and letting all these terrible things happen to good people, and sitting...

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman or the Fiji Islands. That a country which has been recognised in all...

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion is what we do, what we desire, what we seek, what we dream...

doctrinal integrity” (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to be truth that does not lead to compassion for our neighbors cannot...

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Strengthen the weak, for mother nature provides ways to strengthen you; and that’s the beauty of life we need one another.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Catholic, Episcopalian, I won’t have sects with you.

God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one

Let’s say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don’t know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to...

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency...

Fatima benim bir parçamdır, kim ki Fatima’ya kötülük eder, tıpkı bana (kötülük etmiş gibi) olur; kim ki onu hoşnut eder, beni hoşnut etmiş olur.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God’s joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense...

Your RELIGION does not make you a good person. Your BEHAVIOR does.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I’m sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Humanity’s relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation – setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run –...

God’s gifts put men’s best dreams to shame.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know...

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

Humanity is its own worst enemy. What chance do any other species have?Survival is the parchment upon which the Law of Nature is inscribed.And what I’ll find was always mine.And what I’ll say, I’ve said...

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Malgré les fanatiques, il serait extrêmement dangereux d’importer en France la thèse d’un «choc de civilisations» entre le monde musulman et nous. Ne faisons pas de l’Islam le miroir où toutes nos difformités s’effacent. Ne...

If materials things only are what you’re talking about when you say ,” I’m blessed”. Then You have no idea what a blessing is. To wake up in the morning , being alive its a...

If you are strong, torture not the weak,And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on...

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive.” Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered “a crime,...

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to...

Sin will take you where you didn’t plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay

May we be zealous for more of God.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient, that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice...

There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt...

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world’s disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with...

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can’t raise my voice you can’t raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists.