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Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office - and to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the Presidency in the national interest.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

7 Wonders of The world 1. Truth 2. Faith 3. Hope 4. Peace 5. Wisdom 6. Joy 7. Love

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.

A belief is not true because it is useful

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)

A bit like religion, lots of rumor but no real proof that it existed.

A blessed hope, a blessed life.

A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about? Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don't believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart's content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one's everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.

Abundant grace, abundant life.

—¿Acaso no sería mejor el mundo si nunca más se quemara a nadie en el nombre de Dios? —pregunté—. ¿Si no se continuara creyendo que Dios puede ordenar al hombre hacer tal cosa a su semejante? ¿Cuál es el peligro de un mundo racional donde horrores como éste no se produzcan?

Accepting both the real (the true self, pure soul) and the relative is called syadvaad (does not hurt any one’s viewpoint to the slightest extent).

Accident is nature’s way of starting a design; design is a man’s way of looking at the accidents.

A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others.