842 quotes found
“Does God get what God wants?Thats a good question. An interesting question. And its an important question that has given us much to discuss. But theres a better question. One that we actually can a...”
“Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differe...”
“How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?”
“For generations, the Gandhi family has been more spiritual than religious. This may seem to be a contradiction, but it is not. The Gandhis have drawn a clear distinction between two terms. Spiritua...”
“Life is indeed perfect in itself. You see, the best religions in the world have members so afraid to lose them, that they themselves will fear any change and, in doing so, stop such religion from p...”
“Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears that need to be faced. We hear, then, the angers that need to be cooled. We hear the emptin...”
“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.”
“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
“That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men int...”
“The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.”
“You killed the mandir in their homes, you killed the masjid in ours.”
“The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.”
“It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoni...”
“Id love to associate with a humankind that doesnt need religion to control it. A community which instead educates its young with a strong moral guidance. Im trusting that you can live within an acc...”
“Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire”
“We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function.”
“Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for ...”
“Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”