I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“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… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
“So long as we do not permit faith to override our rational powers we should use those talents to explore the frontiers… — Robert Christian Copy Share Image
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
“If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“The standard cosmological theory--an expanding universe--does not really solve the problem of God. It simply makes it more problematical. Once the creator-creation… — r. joseph hoffmann Copy Share Image
I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read,… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
“Unlike many self-styled experts in the field of occult ritual abuse Sinason is no religious crusader. She emphasises in her introduction that… — Gavin Ivey Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Prayer is easily ruined when we make it a project - part of a spiritual self-improvement plan. Rather than pushing yourself forward… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“A spiritual life grows as love finds its centre beyond ourselves. Faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant,… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist. — John Ankerberg Copy Share Image
How I wish I could be there with you, but distance has kept us apart. Apart physically, but in spirit, you are… — Laine Copy Share Image
This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Sta mi mogu moji neprijatelji. Moj dzennet je u mojim prsima, prati me svugdje. Ako me zatvore, to mi je osama sa… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
For a person who is very much involved with the institution of religion but has lost the religious spirit, the 'religion' label… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow." "Ah...quite. You are a… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
“One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
“From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in… — Israel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image