It's unbelievable that so many religious people think 'atheism is just another religion', but it explains why they can't stop attacking atheists! — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled… — Pat Swindall Copy Share Image
“She leaned toward him and said in a quiet voice, "Are you Christian?" Mitchell hesitated to answer. The worst thing about religion… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I don't mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. "I prayed very hard… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let's face it, and let's stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody,… — Björk Copy Share Image
Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“I believe, if there is some sort of higher power, the universe is it. Whenever religious people ask me where the universe… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“As Donald Trump was campaigning for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 he was asked, “Have you ever asked God for… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“All theology is a doomed but necessary attempt to express the inexpressible. God is the elusive mystery we try to capture and… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“You see, the religious people — most of them — really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Legalism The weight we are describing is called legalism. It is a form of religious perfectionism that focuses on the careful performance… — David R. Johnson Copy Share Image
In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Religious people, with their eyes and minds on the heavens, and their hearts open, were more susceptible to a con job and… — Tim Reiterman Copy Share Image
If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it… — Ryan Babel Copy Share Image
If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish'… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why?… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
The practice of altruism is the authentic way to live as a human being, and it is not just for religious people.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“We talked about phonies. We talked about truth. We talked about gangsters; we talked about business. We talked about the nice poor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I respect all religions. What I dont respect is when people use religion to attack others. Ive met people across the world,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image