One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to… — John Quincy Adams 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 money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings,… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell 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 most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“People of this era are just like a butterfly that is controlled by candles' light where it follows the light in darkness… — Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason Copy Share Image
No one can sense his own weakness is at least a small temptation is not allowed to afflict either his body or… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
What the world needs is more compassion; love in the broad sense, and use of practical reason to solve human problems. What… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it;… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about… — Wendy Kaminer 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
... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
