Sacred Texts Quotes

“Where's your church?"
"We're standing in it."
"But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday."
"Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.”
― Forrest Church, A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

“Islaam is the Name of the Universe. Christ is the Soul, and Abraham, the Foundation — The Rainbow At Midnight”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R, The Sacred Key — Transcending Humanity

“In the broader spiritual realities, no rites or rituals are necessary to know God. NONE. Any religion that insists you can come to intimate knowledge of the Divine by any means other than stillness, self-awareness, and unity with consciousness is deceptive. So-called holy texts are about religion, not necessarily about God. They are really owners manuals for faith traditions. I am not denouncing them altogether, as I love the Bible and have studied it reverently all my life. But I don't view the Bible as the inspired word OF God as much as the inspired word of men ABOUT God, as they perceive God through their often jaded, human perspectives. Again, I respect these so-called sacred writings. I would just like to see them read and placed in their proper, less idolatrous, place.”
― Carlton D. Pearson, God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us

“Lakini kuna ndoto takatifu na kuna ndoto za kishetani. Ndoto takatifu hutokea wakati akili imetulia baada ya mwili wote kupumzika, kama ambavyo usiku unavyokuwa kimya na kila kitu kimetulia, karibu na saa za alfajiri, ambapo mfumo wa usagaji chakula unakuwa umemaliza kazi yake. Kipindi hicho malaika wa Mungu hutufunulia siri kuhusu ulimwengu huu, ili kwamba tutakapoamka asubuhi tuwe na baadhi ya maarifa yaliyojificha ndani ya maandiko ya vitabu vitakatifu; kwa sababu malaika wa Mungu ndiye anayetawala ufahamu wetu, kama ambavyo Mungu anavyotawala hiari yetu, na kama ambavyo nyota zinavyotawala miili yetu. Lakini kwa wale waliokomaa kiimani malaika mwema anaweza kuwafunulia siri wakati wowote, haijalishi wamelala au wameamka. Kwa ajili ya ujanja wa Shetani ndiyo maana Mungu hutufunulia siri zake, ili tujihadhari naye.”
― Enock Maregesi

“In light of religious diversity down through the ages and across continents, almost any behavior or belief might be defended or sanctioned if one leans on an isolated phrase, sentence, or story from sacred texts, or an obscure religious document. Therefore, when assessing the importance of religious assertions, it is important to determine whether or not the basis for a given assertion is found in primary or secondary texts, whether the teachings are credited to an individual who carries little or much weight within the religious tradition, and whether or not the assertion is an anomaly in a tradition that overwhelmingly supports an opposing point of view. It is also important to scrutinize translations when assessing critical passages.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions

“To read religious sacred text is not to receive a command, but to enter a conversation already in progress.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“The Book of Mormon was first published in 1830. It is a strange document, similar in many ways to the OAHSPE bible or the BOOK OF URANTIA, two accounts of early history similarly “inspired” by divine intelligence. In 1973 Jacques Bergier proposed to me an amusing explanation for the existence of these books which seem to emanate from a cosmic source and, like the Bible, have come to us through automatic writing or some other form of psychic revelation. There exists, he postulates, a civilization in our galaxy which is broadcasting at regular intervals some cosmic education program, much in the same manner as the French National Radio is every day broadcasting selected lectures in philosophy and history from the Sorbonne. Just as the French are beaming these broadcasts to Africa and other remote places, we could well visualize an advanced civilization broadcasting very advanced concepts on psychic wavelengths, to be picked up by gifted prophets on earth and millions of other retarded planets! Such differences as exist between the Koran, the Bible, the Book of Mormon and other sacred texts would be due to the imperfect understanding of the various individuals who pick up these broadcasts, just as four or five sorcerers from different African tribes, playing at night with old radio sets in different parts of the jungle, might obtain very different impressions of the civilized world through the Sorbonne cultural broadcasts … especially if they did not know what the Sorbonne was, and had only a limited acquaintance with the French language!”
― Jacques F. Vallée, The Invisible College