religion

"It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind comb…"

"The theologians who took up the work which the first reformers had laid down soon came to consider intolerance as a main evidence of spiritual life: erelong they were using all their powers in crushin…"

"I feel that in this child I have seen more of the Divine than has been manifest in anyone I ever met before."

"Brewster's Legacy: God, Country and Yale" by Sarah Raymond in the Yale Herald"

"Belief in God is the single greatest barrier to God in the Universe. It is almost a total barrier to the experience of God. When you think you have experienced God, you haven't. Experiencing God is ex…"

"Sufi music tries to banish the hatred living within all human beings. It does not belong to any one culture, but to all of us. It stands for bhaichara. The great Sufis have said that there is no value…"

"I assert, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. "What !" it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire…"

"The Sharīāh is concerned with the observance of the outward manifestations of religion, while Haqīqat is concerned with an inward vision of Divine Power."

"It is God’s will that I see myself as much bound to Him in love as if He had done for me all that He hath done; and thus should every soul think inwardly of its Lover. That is to say, the Charity of G…"

"Return to the divine presence and make others return to it."

"Pray, O pray to God, dear friends, if you are not already asses — that he will cause you to become asses... There is none who praiseth not the golden age when men were asses: they knew not how to work…"

"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."

"Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God."

"We rebel against the impossible. I sense a wish in some professional religion-mongers to make God possible, to make him comprehensible to the naked intellect, domesticate him so that he's easy to beli…"

"If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil."

"God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil."

"If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that."

"The Zionist regime has adopted measures to change population structure of the city of divine religions and cradle of peace. It has resorted to racism and expansionist policies including expulsion of P…"

"Lord Mahavir and Jain Religion - complied by Pravin K. Shah"

"If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God."