God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their...

I’ve always been a religious person.

Then little Gerda said the Lord’s Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath; it came out of her mouth like smoke. Her breath became thicker and thicker, and took...

If one person has an imaginary friend they’re crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion

Orang mempelajari Islam untuk mengetahui apa sebenarnya Islam itu.

Walk with the Creator on the face of earth.

We promote religious tolerance, all we insist on is that applicants seek an accommodation for grooming guidelines.

God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.

Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious barbarities – wars and massacres, acts of terrorism, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the...

I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice,” he told me, “You are expected to sacrifice because it is the measure of the depth of your belief…

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.

He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.

The tests and exams were not so difficult to pass but we fail a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer when it comes to dealing with sin

Enam puluh tahun kami menikah. Dua belas anak. Tentu saja ada banyak pertengkaran. Kadang merajuk diam-diaman satu sama lain. Cemburu. Salah-paham. Tapi kami berhasil melaluinya. Dan inilah puncak perjalanan cinta kami. Aku berjanji padanya saat...

One should be happy and pleased and then only take part in religious sacrifices.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, ‘God forgive God.’ Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn’t. He crucified Him.

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara...

Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what is sometimes called organized religion. They have learned to forgive themselves. They do...

Gratitude opens the door to faith and faith opens the door to our relationship with God.

My duty, I know, is to lead. I cannot offer an array of options. I must offer a long but narrow path to Salvation, and guide the Saints down it. Were that path wide and...

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. ‘I come to seek God because I need Him’, may be an adequate formula for prayer. ‘I come to adore His splendour,...

He is always doing something–the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself. Life is too short for you to judge, persecute, hurt yourself. The battle is not yours but the Lord. 2 chronicles 20:15. Leave everything...

Bhineka tunggal ika adalah prinsip dalam Islam. Uraian yang diberikan di atas adalah keragaman dalam hal-hal yang erat hubungannya dengan soal keagamaan.

The arm of flesh will fail you,” Bridie’s grandmother had been fond of reminding her, especially after she’d started dating, bringing home this one and that one, going on and on about them. “Love with...

If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us,...

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God’s grace.

IMPERCEPTIBLE IMPELLENTGod exists in the heart, not in the show of religious alignment

Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly.

Then the Lord said: “If you had the faith the size of a mustard grain, you would say to this black mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea!’ and it would obey you....

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my...

I don’t think my religious convictions should be held against me.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the ‘best’ people, the ‘right’ food, the ‘important’ books. I have known a human...

You are my strength when I am weakYou are my shield when I am hurtingWhatever you say unto me LordI will do

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.(Jesus, in Mark 11:24)

God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil….

You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Most prayers are not really questions…and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. …We pray because we are here – not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because...

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale.

We are members of God’s family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.

A dog is more committed than a religious person; the former does whatever the owner says, while the latter does what someone else told someone else.

Thou wilt be condemned in to everlasting redemption for this.

Sticking a straw up your butt won’t get rid of the constipation.

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church....

All of the members of this cell shared the same religious convictions, an Islamic lifestyle, a feeling of being out of place in unfamiliar cultural surroundings that they were not used to.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or...