- “I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
- “Call on God. He will answer.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.” ― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
- “According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.” ― Sam Harris
- “Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Making a movie on humanity. Caste is yet to be finalised.” ― Nitya Prakash
- “A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.” ― Alan Wilson Watts
- “Renew your mind with the word of God.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “I don’t know’, ‘Maybe’, ‘Perhaps’ – If youhave stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don’t have beliefs. Beliefs have you.” ― Shunya
- “Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.” ― Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- “Peygamber dedi: ‘Kadın akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.’ İncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk’ın ışığıdır; sevgili değil. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir.” ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Masnavi I Ma’navi
- “You’ve a right to believe that we’re governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.” ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
- “They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.” ― Martin Luther
- “The soul … has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.” ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- “For Hell and the foul fiend that rulesGod’s everlasting fiery jails(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,Are senseless stories, idle tales,Dreams, whimseys, and no more.” ― John Wilmot, The Complete Poems
- “What did those people teach you?” he asked me one night, mystified. “What exactly do Catholics believe?”I’d been preparing my whole life for this question. “First of all, blood. BLOOD. Second of all, thorns. Third of all, put dirt on your forehead. Do it right now. Fourth of all, Martin Luther was a pig in a cloak. Fifth of all, Jesus is alive, but he’s also dead, and he’s also immortal, but he’s also made of clouds, and his face is a picture of infinite peace, but he also always looks like one of those men in a headache commercial, because you’rec causing him so much suffering whenever you cuss. He is so gentle that sheep seem like demented murderers in his presence, but also rays of sunlight shoot out of his face so hard they can kill people. In fact, they do kill people, and one day they will kill you. He has a tattoo of a daisy on his lower back and he gets his hair permed every eight weeks. He’s wearing a flowing white dress, but only because people didn’t know about jeans back then. He’s holding up two fingers because his dad won’t let him have a gun. If he lived on earth, he would have a white truck, plastered with bumper stickers of Calvin peeing on a smaller Calvin who is not a Catholic.”Jason was aghast. “Thorns?” he whispered. “But that’s the most dangerous part of the rose.” ― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy
- “Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.” ― Johann Hari
- “(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature’s voices all around them–the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind–should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.” ― Jerome K. Jerome
- “A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.[…] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner’s execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.[…] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I’m told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.” ― Mark L. Shurtleff
- “All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
- “Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be sound.” ― Fulke Greville
- “Whether we are religious or nonreligious, today we can go online to meet the needs once served in religious spaces: to connect, but also to confess our secrets, seek out information, process tragedies, and pursue a more just world.” ― Chris Stedman, IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives
- “People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- “I don’t know how you feel, but I’m pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.” ― George Carlin
- “The divine is always abominable.”Houses Under The Sea” ― Caitlín R. Kiernan
- “A thought in itself is in fact a sinusoidal wave, and, from this, everything else – the entire nature of existence – follows. Equating a thought to a sinusoidal wave that can be used in Fourier mathematics is the greatest intellectual breakthrough of all time. When its consequences are eventually understood by scientists, philosophers and mathematicians, it will revolutionize the human race like nothing before.” ― Mike Hockney, Psychophysics
- “If you’re not allowed to question the beliefs and practices of a political system or a religion, know that it is all crap. For it wants to own you. If you want to be enslaved, well, go ahead! But if you yearn to be free, then, get over it, as you’d trash. Don’t be an egghead.” ― Fakeer Ishavardas
- “Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely……” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely