#religion

"There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group."

"I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence."

"All men are Prophets or else God does not exist."

"The Holy Land is everywhere"

"What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?"

"Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional."

"Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people."

"I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

"Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you."

"If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief."

"All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion."

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

"If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?"

"The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"

"A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake."

"The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence."

"But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me."