Quotes Tagged "religion"

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?” “No, sir.” “What must you do to avoid it?” I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: “I must keep in good health, and not die.

He’d never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there.

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion.

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

إن القرآن ومن ورائه علماء الكلام وأصول الدين،كلهم يجمعون على ضرورة طلب عقيدة الإيمان بوجود الله عن طريق النظر والاستدلال

بعض أسباب رسوخ و حصانة السلبية تعود إلى ارتكازها على مفاهيم تنسب زورا و ظلما إلى الدين أو إلى نصوص دينية مجتزأة من سياقها أو إلى مواقف لعلماء دين كانت مجرد ردود أفعال في سياقها التاريخي و هكذا فإن ذلك كله يتداخل مع أمثال شعبية و أقوال مأثورة و أنماط سلوك شائعة قديمة تجعل كل ما سبق يمتلك حصانة و قداسة لا مبرر لها دينيا بل و كل ما في الإسلام هو ضد هذه السلبية .

All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)

لقد جاء القرآن بدين الفطرة ليحرر بأوامره القدسية النفوس المغلولة، وينجي من معاشر الجهالة العقول الضالة

It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.

لقد فرض الإسلام ،منذ أشرق نور القرآن على القلوب، وتجلت تعاليمه الفطرية على العالم الإنساني، التفكير وقبح التقليد ورفع الحجر عن العقول

...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil.

With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe.

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

All have the ability to perceive and live in dimensional synthesis, yet they spend time with the sciences trying to separate these realms, splitting the worlds into minutia, seeking the god particle. They are searching high and low, 'out there', for the source of it all, but no matter how many accelerators they build, no matter how far they go, they will never find the source ‘out there’ because the source is within

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.