For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and… — Hanna Rosin 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
There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land.… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed,… — John Adams 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
Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all… — Samuel B. Pettengill Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels 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
We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Tuhan ingin menyampaikan risalah kepada manusia. Untuk itu Tuhan mengirim Rasul-rasul dan Nabi Muhammad adalah salah satu dari Rasul-rasul itu. Risalah yang… — Gustave E. Von Grunebaum Copy Share Image
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children - not… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about… — John McQuiston II Copy Share Image
The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened… — Ian Gawler Copy Share Image