In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow...

Atheism, true ‘existential’ atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved...

I don’t trust Catholics,” I said, “because they take advantage of you.””And Protestants?” he asked with a laugh.”I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences.””And atheists?” He was still laughing.”They bore me because...

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

A sheep walking in a dark forest one sheep found him and bring him to shepherds house but he didn’t realize there still wolves in that place, he run into the dark forest and still...

God is as real as a station wagon.

The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said...

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves...

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Isn’t it amazing that, historically, the “Prince of Peace” has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me...

He wrote: “A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way.” Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.

If I didn’t fear I’d do you harm…I’d try to make you an atheist. I really do think that you are a deluded follower of mistaken and superstitious and cowardly theories. That’s as far as...

I’m glad I’m not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn’t be much of a god.

The Structure is bigger than the concept.

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

Dicho del ProfetaLa lenguaUn hombre resbala más con su lengua que con sus pies.

When asked why I don’t believe in God I reply, quite simply, “vaginas”.

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who...

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination –...

Uno de los grandes Sufis dijo: “Un santo es un santo a menos que sepa que lo es”.

He asked me if I ever prayed– and I lied.Then he asked me if I ever got an answer, or a sign that my prayer was heard– and I told him the truth.”Yeah… me neither.”His...

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

A Christian telling an atheist they’re going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they’re not getting any presents from Santa.

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, and loved. Through metaphor, the vividness, intensity,...

I don’t go in for ancient wisdomI don’t believe just ‘cos ideas are tenacious it means they’re worthy

The ruin of a man’s teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only...

If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to...

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party...

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains...

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a...

There’s one other thing I’d like to remind you of, my dear. There’ve been many times when you’ve sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for...

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation...

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all receivedwisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion….This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no needfor temple...

S’il n’existait pas Dieu il faudrait l’inventer.” (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

Blessed are the peacemakers.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself,...

But we’re not humanity, we’re just one culture – one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing,...

Ankh-Morpork is a godless city–”I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?’ said Maladict.Strappi stared at him in rage that was incoherent until he managed to touch bottom again. ‘Ankh-Morpork is a...

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common...

Bize ikinci elden yazılı veya sözlü olarak iletilen düşünce ve ifadelerin bir vahiy olduğunu ileri sürmek çelişkidir. Vahiy tanımı gereği ilk ilişkiyle sınırlıdır. Bundan sonrası bu kişinin kendisine vahiy gönderildiğini ileri sürmesinden başka bir şey...

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was...