The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It's astonishiing that so many religious people are ignorant enough to think atheism is 'just another religion'. But at least it explains… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“She and Harry may be the most loyal, least religious people in the community, but there are times when people need religion… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns,… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
“I wonder either their God has turned old, sick or died, because even the religious people no more believe in shit.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“but he had a great respect for money, and much overrated its value as a means of doing even what he called… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“People, especially some religious people. would have us believe that it is wrong . even a sin, to love oneself. It is… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“I have noticed, especially in Wales, that religious people eat substantially before a service and also as substantially when they come back… — Rhys Davies Copy Share Image
“Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“God’s Search for Sinners Tax collectors and sinners gathered to hear Jesus. Pharisees and other religious people grumbled: “Jesus welcomes sinners and… — Daniel Partner Copy Share Image
“At the end of this Sabbath encounter with the religious leaders Mark records a remarkable sentence that sums up one of the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In the continually shifting marketplace of ideas, religious concepts and speculations about our spiritual destiny, there is one book which stands apart… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“It strikes me that it’s always religious people who are most surprised by grace. Those hoops we become so exhausted from jumping… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn’t both be… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
“In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I receive the flak via nasty blog posts, letters, usually coming from very religious people who cannot reconcile how I could share… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder ofa religionreligions are affairs of the rabble; I find it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
... religious insults are considered acceptable even by those who decry slurs about race, ethnicity, and gender. Religious people seem to deserve… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
“Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Being a medium, a lot of religious people are like, 'ok. that's talking to the dead.' The bible talks about it in… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of… — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image