religion

"[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions."

"If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission."

"ugd بگذار هرکجا تنفراست بذرعشق بکارم هرکجا آزادگی هست ببخشایم وهر کجا غم هست شادی نثار کنم الهی توفیقم ده که بیش ازطلب همدلی همدلی کنم بیش از آنکه دوستم بدارند دوست بدارم زیرا در عطا کردن است که ستوده می شویم و در بخشیدن است که بخشیده می شویم"

"It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says."

"Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock."

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."

"Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins."

"للعبد رب هو ملاقيه ،وبيت هو ساكنه ،فينبغى له أن يسترضى ربه قبل لقائه ،ويعمر بيته قبل انتقاله إليه."

"الندم هو صوت الفطرة لحظة الخطأ"

"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."

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

"When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die."

"Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval."

"When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late."

"…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."

"‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us."

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"God save us from people who mean well."

"To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all."

"It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes."