religion

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe…"

"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered."

"As alluring as it is, entitlement isolates us. Our curiosity and excitement for the world turns in upon itself and reflects our own biases and projections onto every person we meet and every event we …"

"In the speech on the day of Ghadeer, The Messenger of God indicated the preference of Imam Ali's khilafah and did not make it obligatory."

"See this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in gr…"

"God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again."

"Writing certainly develops as an elite initiative at this time. It helps them to harness the workforce – it's a way of communicating with the gods; and it's a way for the elites to list what you have,…"

"If there's no bacon in heaven, I don't plan on going."

"As Hooykaas argued, the pervasiveness of religion meant that for any idea to become socially acceptable, it made a huge difference whether it was resisted, tolerated, or sponsored by prevalent religio…"

"We state with a unified voice that religions through which Almighty God sought to bring happiness to mankind should not be turned into instruments to cause misery,"

"I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracl…"

"Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers."

"Nazism says that women are absolutely equal to men. But they're different. And thank god for the difference."

"Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities."

"Simplicity is the loving inclination of the soul elevated by God, Who efficaciously drawn it into His own heart. There He reduces all its faculties to unity of spirit, that it may live there, in a n a…"

"A fanciful and flowery and heated imagination beware of; because the things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. T…"

"you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice."

"If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loite…"

"Pythagoras' idea of the transmigration of the soul is central."

"I like to think of it as like watching The Godfather...You might have seen it 1,000 times, but when it comes on it makes you stop. Each time you see it, you find something different. That’s what I wan…"