It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I just want to lobby for God.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I answer only to God.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘