I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.'… — Don Adams Copy Share Image
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe that people should show respect to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of their beliefs, religious beliefs or any… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Captain Smith,” Jackson thoughtfully responds, “my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed… — Dennis Jowers Copy Share Image
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the… — Wayne Besen Copy Share Image
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist… — Tana French 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
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
