Religion Quotes

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people

I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.

the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.

Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

In life, I always thought that an Atheist values life much more than any follower of any religion. I believe in that now more than ever. Hell has strengthened that opinion.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get

I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself?

Sufism is the essence of all religions.

At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.

In the beginning, I only wanted to know, love, and serve God and understand the Bible. What harm could that possibly bring?

Sometimes to move forward, you have to find yourself backwards.

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

We use to think that we’ll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.

I’ve tried everything else, I’ll try God.“- Cherie.

Keeping Christ in Christmas" is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

Love is my love, love is my religion.

We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love.

Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.

After your daily bread, if you ask God for anything, ask 'him' to make you right in the head.

If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut.

The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does.

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.