The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians. — Francis Xavier Copy Share Image
“These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
“Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be… — Martin Booth Copy Share Image
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The book of Ecclesiastes is one of God’s gifts to help us live in the real world. It’s a book in the… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
“In a spirit of mutinous resistance, she climbed the steep grassy slope to the bridge, and qhen she stood on the driveway,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I think that as a Christian, we're to be a light in this world. I think it's almost like saying "Christian American,"… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“We’re not so different, you and I. Sure, we may have different religious beliefs, political outlooks, sexual orientations, economic viewpoints, and artistic/literary/culinary… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When it comes to religion, we have a funny habit of believing things that make us feel better about ourselves." "What do… — Jerome Wilde Copy Share Image
You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
“To a well-born man, honour is dearer than gold. A well-born man should use his gold to protect his body, his body… — Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“For many years, as editor of the Adventist Review and Adventist World, I endeavored to share the truth with the people, even… — William G. Johnsson Copy Share Image
“Jesus had disciples whose names are cited in the Gospels, though not always with consistency .. Luke refers to a tax collector… — Kamal Salibi Copy Share Image
“One way to neutralize the impact of a faithful church is to allow a spirit of improper self-doubt. Charles Haddon Spurgeon says:… — Ray Ortlund Copy Share Image
“I simply argue that the cross be raised again, at the centre of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of… — George MacLeod Copy Share Image
Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“The entire virtue of religious practices can be conceived from the Buddhist tradition concerning the recitation of the name of the Lord.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I understand those who, for religious reasons, just can't go along with this. If a church wants to refuse same-sex couples the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ teaching is not the product of human learning, of whatever kind. It originates from immediate contact with the Father, from “face-to-face”… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise.… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Fearing God has two aspects. The first is reverence. It is a sacred awe of God's utter holiness. It involves the kind… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Of what use is it that we know the truth, if we lack its spirit? Our knowledge, in this event, becomes a… — Joseph F. Smith Copy Share Image
“When there is great doubt,” says a Zen aphorism that Kusan Sunim kept repeating, “then there is great awakening.” This is the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
