842 quotes found
“A non-religious man today ignores what he considers sacred but, in the structure of his consciousness, could not be without the ideas of being and the meaningful. He may consider these purely human...”
“You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him...”
“Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”
“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love an...”
“If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.”
“I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving to their heavenly father to give them their daily bread. Do children beseech ...”
“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”
“Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in th...”
“I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.”
“You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned”
“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend...”
“Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer”
“I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as wo...”
“To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.”
“We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.”
“Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.”
“Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.”
“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and worki...”
“Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.”
“They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. ”
