Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Jesus invites us to think about the people with whom we share meals. He isn’t saying that we should ignore our family… — Christopher L. Heuertz Copy Share Image
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me a right faith, a sure hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge,… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
If you believe in it and you are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it, then you will become it,… — Ricardo Housham Copy Share Image
It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
“...the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the… — A.W. tozer Copy Share Image
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word. — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
“You must remember this: You can never have a Christian mind without reading the Scriptures regularly because you cannot be profoundly influenced… — Nick Harrison Copy Share Image
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Heard a lot of talk about this Jesus, a man of love, a man of strength. What a man was two thousand… — Live (Band Copy Share Image
Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],… — T.M. Knox Copy Share Image
To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains… — Howard Thompson Copy Share Image
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do… — William Law Copy Share Image
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image