Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura 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
“The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is the surrendering and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In a sense it has been my way to transcendental experience: to the discovery that matter metaphorically speaking, is the creation of… — Humberto R. Maturana Copy Share Image
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“We need to realize that Jesus Christ came to die for our sin and to pay the price for our iniquity. If… — Jon Courson Copy Share Image
“If Ayurveda were a religion Nature would be its Goddess, and overindulgence would be the sole sin She would punish. Ayurveda is… — Dr. Robert Svoboda Copy Share Image
Even as I burn, So brightly, I still, As we all do, Struggle along, In the Dark, That presses in, From all… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must… — Irina Tweedie Copy Share Image
“I, Wonder, say to you truly all that we are is just one motion of breath and divinity rushing together - to… — Renee Hummel Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
“No doubt the world's shamans have run the gamut from true believer to calculating fraud, and no doubt many true beliefs have… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Was very weary, having walked in the sun about fifteen or sixteen miles, yet had the satisfaction of discoursing with some money-changers… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Your heart tells you your life path, goals, and passions. The heart has a passion so deep it burns within you like… — Sarah Christine Lalonde Copy Share Image
If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
“Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be… — Prem Prakash Copy Share Image
“Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Peace in the head, peace in the stomach. The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
Well, I feel that the pursuit of trying to know who God is, and trying to be known by God, can be… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER … Do I trust in God my loving Father or in my own puny efforts to “control” the… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith,… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“It may seem that there are many followers of Jesus, but if they were honestly to define the relationship they have with… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Evangelists have absolutely no desire to physically or emotionally coerce anyone. In a sense, we are like doctors: we have a duty… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
