All Quotes By Tag: Religion

“Silence brings answers; you just have to listen.  So I listened.  And it’s not sounds as most people think, listening can be feelings, sights, smells.  Listening is receiving just like all the other senses; you just have to be open.”Excerpt From: Born from Weeds & Rats”

“If a king decides that the fate of his kingdom depends on a game of ludo, he must be Yudhishthir.”

“Any religion that has to do with dogmas and doctrines, and does not evolve with time is only the most immature form of religion – it’s only the most barbarian form of religion.”

“On the matter of God, I’ve stood in every square on the board: obedient believer, secretly hopeful, open-but-dubious. I’ve walked away from the board entirely, only to circle back. Today, all I can say is: I don’t know what I think about God…I do know that I love many believers and pulse with gratitude that wants a locus and I wonder about the wonders I see around me and feel inside me. But I’m not sure of anything.”

“To be preoccupied with getting theological knowledge as an end to itself, to approach Bible study with no higher motive than a desire to know all the answers, is the direct route to a state of self-satisfied deception.”

“…[S]o many people look only to their bank balance for peace or to fellow human beings for models to follow. Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man? I had such a test decades ago when one of my medical faculty colleagues chastised me for failing to separate my professional knowledge from my religious convictions. He demanded that I not combine the two. How could I do that? Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside. Whether truth emerges from a scientific laboratory or through revelation, all truth emanates from God.”

“Let the poor be your god, and your service to them, be your religion.”

“Nunca me ha convencido el punto de vista que sitúa a la serpiente como el villano en la historia de Adán y Eva. En cuanto se lo piensa un poco, la serpiente no obliga ni engaña a Eva, ni mucho menos a Adán. Apenas si le sugiere a Eva probar el fruto prohibido. La serpiente seduce, pero no amenaza. Eva podría haber rechazado su incitación sin riesgos. Adán también.”

“Even region separates people religion should not separate people.”

“The moral vacuum we now feel ourselves to be in has always been there, even if we haven’t recognized it Religious people are already entirely accustomed to picking and choosing which texts from holy book they obey and which they reject. There are passages of the Judeo-Christian Bible which no modern Christian or Jew would wish to follow. The story of Isaac’s narrowly averted sacrifice by his father Abraham strikes us moderns as a shocking piece of child abuse, whether we read it literally or symbolically.”

“Your religion doesn’t determine your value here on earth, maybe in the next one; but it is your growth and relevance to your fellow humans that does.”

“RELIGION is like a rocket. Use it to raise your consciousness only. Drop it when you are in your ORBIT.”

“She kissed him then, with the same mixture of wonder and irony with which she kissed the cross in church. She didn’t always understand that, either.”

“Religion and politics together is the most dangerous of all combinations, when that religion, is not the true religion of kindness and love, but the religion of books, doctrines and priests.”

“Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident.”