The candles were adored and worshipped like idols, for, after all, they invoked the gods of light.
Today's religions where once books for education, It's just that people eventually forgot to get the knowledge from the books and started to pray it
People got creative, creativity became stories, stories became books, Books became religions, characters became Gods, Religions became differences, differences limited the creativity in people.
God doesn't hate you for what you've done wrong, He loves you for what you're trying to do right.
As we remember the Personal God, chant his name, clean his temples, or read tales of his play on earth...we start liking God. The expressive mind experiences the feeling of affection towards our preferred form of God. When this bond of love is purified by the addition of selflessness (nishkama mode) to it, love becomes true love or bhakti.
As we love God, wish to see him, develop a sense of belonging, and work for him, faith blossoms to produce refuge in him. Refuge is about leaving everything to God.
If Egyptian pyramids where in India they would be Temples and mummies would be prayed as God's
An atheist would not stand against any religion or worships but he rather helps you understand the science behind it
It is the effects on the world of successful active germ-line replicators that we see as adaptations.
Our wealthy, Westernized classes are so obsessed with individualism, they’ve forgotten how to be themselves, let alone how to be individuals,” he said. “These Westernized Turks are too conceited to believe in God. Their individuality is all they care about. Most choose not to believe in God just to prove they’re not like everyone else, though they won’t even acknowledge that’s the reason why. But faith is precisely about being like everyone else. Religion is the haven and the consolation of the meek.
Faith is full assurance of God's faithfulness.
If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.
Man passes from the work to the producer of the work and he sees that an All-Beauteous Maker wants to make himself known and acquainted through the miracles of His own art, and he responds with knowledge and belief.
The difficulty in believing in any creator of any kind is the question of suffering. God as the many epithets implies, is All-knowing, and All-powerful yet cannot stop the suffering of this world. That is the question most atheists ask of a seemingly benevolent being
Faith is to suspect something is there and knowledge is to encounter it.
Islam isn't about ayats and hadiths and niches and lamps. Its about us. All of us. Allah’s too big and too open for my Islam to be small and closed
Faith is to believe and knowledge is accomplished through death.
I don’t know what is more frightening: a creature on a small planet worshipping itself and its world as if infinity did not exist, or a creature who burns its fellow beings because the infinite does exist.
His expression made me think of old-timey illustrations of god: severely paternal, bestowing the kind of love that weighs and measures before it find you worthy.
But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are merely fallible and human? As soon as we admit that there are scriptural mistakes (or concessions to the ignorance of the times), then how can the Bible be an inerrant guide to ethics and morals?
