religion

"Those who raise questions about the God hypothesis and the soul hypothesis are by no means all atheists. An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling eviden…"

"For the holy are susceptible too to evil, even as you and I, signori; they too are helpless before sin without God's aid... and the holy can be fooled by sin as quickly as you or I, signori. Quicker, …"

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

"You are god in your own universe. There is no god unless it is self."

"He would confidently affirm that the grace of prayerfulness should be more desired than all others by the religious man, and, believing that without it no good could be wrought in the service of God, …"

"Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God."

"The objective of asceticism is to leave all that harms the servants Hereafter and the objective of worship is to do all that will benefit his Hereafter."

"God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side."

"Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger"

"Their argument was that no one comes here to sit with prayer beads, they all have ambitions and if they are not fulfilled, they go away."

"All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals — to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice."

"What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not t…"

"Only that prayer which comes from our heart can get to God’s heart."

"Supreme God has uncountable Divine powers. When most of them are dormant or inactive, then God is formless and is referred to by the term Brahman. When more of His powers are active, God has form, and…"

"It was all a matter of a Goddess – dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable."

"Cultural elites in countries that dominate peoples have adapted subject people’s religion for their own purposes."

"I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted."

"The Buddhist PAVARANA ceremony at the end of the rainy season retreat was instituted by the Lord Buddha, who did not want human beings to live in silence "like dumb animals." This ceremony, during whi…"

"Nice guys never have a soul patch."

"It is the furious longing to give finality to the Universe, to make it conscious and personal, that has brought us to believe in God, to wish that God may exist, to create God, in a word. To create Hi…"