“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“White supremacy, over time, became a religion of sorts. Faith in the idea that people of the African race were bestial, that… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection,… — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
“The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“In summary, the passages considered depict an understanding of exaltation as a characteristic of the one God, which may also become a… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It does not matter whether one is a Buddhist like me, or a Christian like the Archbishop, or any other religion, or… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If the Apostle justly prohibits the use of unknown tongues in the church, much less would he have tolerated these artificial musical… — Theodore Beza Copy Share Image
“Everything and anything can be taken away from us—jobs, religious freedoms, finances, health, relationships—except for our intimate relationship with God. Once we… — Jeanne Nigro Copy Share Image
Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Was that all her religious beliefs had ever been then, a set of precepts so deeply inculcated in her that they became… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Faith is wonderful for when you understand it's meaning, it understands you and it takes you where you are destined to be.… — Ravi Ranjan Copy Share Image
“You know what these “God Bless America” people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow they’re so crazy about. They’re… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
