My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be poor in spirit, and that there should be no strong bond… — Plato Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
“The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch… — Dhammapada Copy Share Image
If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as… — Paul Pruyser Copy Share Image
“The feeling you have that 'there's something else' is real. What happens when you don't follow the compulsion? What is on the… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Exoneration of Jesus Christ If Christ was in fact God, he knew all the future. Before Him like a panorama moved the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“Beloved friends, these things are of critical importance. For anyone who enters into a so-called “spiritual path” must eventually face and deal… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I suspect that if aliens did come to Earth, it would be as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a… — Haley Bonar Copy Share Image
Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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“We can therefore express the major elements in the New Atheists’ agenda as follows: Religion is a dangerous delusion: it leads to… — John C. Lennox Copy Share Image
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Above everything Ralph aches for unity with the external feminine caritas - blessed, soul-saving, divine love. Divine here refers to not a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
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Thank you God for giving me another day, another chance to become a better individual, another chance to give and experience love.… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state. And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
![“...for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be poor in spirit, and that there should be no strong bond of friendship or society among them, which love, above all other motives, is likely to inspire, as our Athenian tyrants learned by experience; for... [love] had a strength…” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f26/plato-103_friendship_for-the-interests-of-rulers-require-that_127166.jpg)
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