religion

"I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all…"

"Whoever flees prayer flees all that is good."

"To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps."

"I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer."

"Religion always poses a problem for capitalism because, by saying that some things are sacred, it insists that not everything is saleable."

"Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right."

"If they believe it, they go back to scoff at the religion of their parents."

"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."

"Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above."

"The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation."

"The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement, the placation of the Almighty by blood—all this is abhorrent to me. The spirit-guides do not insist upon these aspects of religio…"

"She was goddess because of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she was reproduction — the greatest and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund."

"Shri Krishna says in the Gita, “I am Vyas among Munis .” Veda Vyas is the heart of our culture, the founder and spokesperson of Vedic dharma. Vyasa was endowed with divine energy. He was great yogi, u…"

"In 1195 when Raja Bhim was attacked by Aibak 20,000 slaves were captured, and 50,000 at Kalinjar in 1202. “The temples were converted into mosques,” writes Hasan Nizami, “and the voices of the summone…"

"I'm all for offending people's religion. I think it should be offended at every opportunity"

"Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained."

"Feed the soul, starve the ego."

"If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion."

"God Almighty, dear God, good to me, gave me a sweet tongue, and these sad and lonely folk will hear me and they shall be happy."

"Everything is game except what makes the soul better or worse."