Religious Perspective Quotes

God designed humans to live in community.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.

It is not the choice of a woman to decide on life. That choice is the Creator’s.

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

It is absolutely necessary to tell the world both inside and outside India that the economic problem is not the only problem in the country. From the Muslim point of view the cultural problem is of much greater consequence

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

History is the revelation of Providence.

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

The Hindu people are among the most misunderstood in the world. They cannot be viewed through the Judeo-Christian lens.

I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

Only God has rights. People have duties.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.