religion

"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’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation."

"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future."

"If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam."

"Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul."

"Forgiveness is God's greatest gift"

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

"No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it."

"The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power."

"Religion is more than rite and ritual."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

"Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free."

"Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists."

"People who change their religion should face the death penalty."

"The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon."

"Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie."

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"

"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."

"I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen"