religion

"Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional."

"إن عبادة الإله الواحد وحدها ستقرب الانسان من السلام الذي يتكلم عليه الجميع ولايفعل أحد شيئاً لتحقيقه."

"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

"He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion."

"Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?"

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

"It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how."

"Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing."

"I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it."

"To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?"

"Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor."

"He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love."

"And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity."

"If religion is a crutch, then society is the broken foot."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

"Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions."

"Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic."

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."

"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage."