Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“One must repeat one’s confession of faith from time to time, actually state what one condones, what one condemns; for the opposing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goetheolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21). Holy Scripture must be acknowledged as the… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Your prayers are your light; Your devotion is your strength; Sleep is the enemy of both. Your life is the only opportunity… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“the only viable response to religious hostility is love, empathy, compassion, understanding—not more hostility. (What could be more pathetic than a hostile… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One spirit remained unaware of his presence, staring at Miss Parker with such longing that he reluctantly decided to let it stay.… — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“In other words, the Bible isn't there simply to be an accurate reference point for people who want to look things up… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“So the novelist David Foster Wallace, not long before his suicide, spoke these words to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College:… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. — Sebastian Franck Copy Share Image
“How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic,… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
Faith is trusting in Gods plan, not trusting God will give us our plans... He is not our magic genie.. He is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a… — Matthew Paul Turner Copy Share Image
The faith community has a really critical role to play. Both giving out accurate and important information and ensuring that everyone in… — Deborah Birx Copy Share Image
“Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It… — Christine Helmer Copy Share Image
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings. — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
When you give religiously inspired zealots weapons of mass destruction and you promise them that if they kill innocent people they will… — Alan M Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion… — Charles De Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a alent; my sole concern has been to save myself by… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented… — Nancy Northup Copy Share Image
Being a good person does not depend on your religion, status, race, color, political views or culture. It depends on how you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
