Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Not just because his kiss froze my spirit in place, made me wish I was a statue so I never had to… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“Something has shifted in the intervening decades. It has shifted in all of us, and the shift has no connection with religion.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The things we go through, the trials and tribulations; they're there to test out faith. God is always with us, but he… — Marcia M Edwards Copy Share Image
Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The church for too long has followed Casper, the friendly ghost instead of seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit. We have… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are… — Machiavelli Nicolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“I give you my spirit, my flesh and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song. A song of happiness.… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul Copy Share Image
“A clear pattern soon emerged, as demonstrated by many polls: the more prominently Christians entered the political arena, the more negatively they… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic;… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
Getting started sometimes requires a person to take big leaps of faith in order to hopefully soon see the realization of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God. — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
“The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Bad Religion's tradition has always been to try and provoke people but hopefully lead them to a better sense of who they… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ;… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image