Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conversative shell, unless he doesn't feel discomfort there.” — Tarif Naaz Copy Share Image
Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into… — John Webster Copy Share Image
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“In Protestantism there has been a persistent belief that to externalize religion is to degrade it. Only in the privacy of the… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“It’s not just on specific days or times to be conscious of God’s presence, but all the time. I can feel holiness… — Sadiqua Hamdan Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of renouncing the devil,” he said; “and the difference is perhaps the deepest chasm in modern religion. One… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Catholic chruch as threatened your life - do you not want revenge? Have you not sold your hatred to the Pretestant… — S.J. Parris Copy Share Image
“The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have revolutionized our… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love.… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is not “the Doer,” but rather the “Helper.” He will not do it without us, but if we engage… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
“the gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world’s creator) is at last becoming king and that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like..." "A religious experience?" "Exactly! It's like going to church...” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts… — Alan Seeger Copy Share Image
“It is not true that faith, as a Victorian poet said, "puts out the eye of light"; without it there would be… — A.E. Taylor Copy Share Image
I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
“the level of tolerance for religious differences is much greater than the politically correct crowd would have us believe.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Please do not tell me that you speak to God on my behalf. If a god exists, I am a good enough… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“We are not helping people to get God right, but to get right with God. The Holy Spirit alone opens hearts and… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what remains its… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Oh, he is really trying my salvation right now, because I feel a cussing demon getting ready to rise up and attach… — Tiffany L. Warren Copy Share Image
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
