religion

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

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

"The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."

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

"Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom."

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."

"There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better."

"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither."

"Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent."

"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."

"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."

"المعصية تورث الذل ولا بد, فإن العز كل العز في طاعة الله تعالى.قال تعالى: {من كان يريد العزة فلله العزة جميعا}أي : فليطلبها بطاعة الله, فإنه لا يجدها إلا في طاعته. وكان دعاء بعض السلف اللهم أعزني بطاعتك, ولا تذلني بمعصيتك"

"I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature."

"If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act."

"Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight."

"If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship."