religion

"I lived in Malaysia for three years in the kind of uncertainty westerners face only in times of war. The five daily calls to prayer are the only predictable events in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. T…"

"When it comes to scary-ass religions, extremist Muslims are like Godzilla and we're like, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret."

"They want Americans to be American, and yet they offer little or no spiritual sustenance for their growth and welfare"

"There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent."

"First there's God, then there's Glenville, then there's myself."

"The prayer is one of the dictates of religion, in it lies the pleasure of the Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious, and it is the conduct of the Prophets."

"With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again."

"From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented."

"God is only mocked by believers."

"Wert thou to open the heart of a single soul by helping him to embrace the Cause of Him Whom God shall make manifest, thine inmost being would be filled with the inspirations of that august Name. It d…"

"Christ seeks souls, not property. ... He who wants a large part of mankind to be such that ... he may act like a ferocious executioner toward them, press them into slavery, and through them grow rich,…"

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Tr…"

"The impurity of ignorance is in none so manifest as in the devout; for they act on their ignorance, and fill themselves and others with miserable scruples and hard thoughts of God, and are as apt to c…"

"A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?"

"The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the moun…"

"Eventually the old ideas will no longer serve, the old ideological framework can no longer be tinkered up to bear the weight of the facts, and a radical reconstruction becomes necessary, leading event…"

"When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe."

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the in…"

"Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old."

"Subbulakshmi, when singing, comes closer to God and the same happens to those who listen to her."