As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

Every story has a time to be told

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

Learning how to make your own fun and discover things on your own is something that is applicable to any job, any relationship, any trip, any adventure in life.

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.