Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred… — Paul McGuire Copy Share Image
But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual,… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think there's a real danger that Islamophobia can actually be a cover for something far more malign. I don't want to… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Reagan loved and respected his father, Jack Reagan. But if there was a father figure to Reagan in the religious sense, it… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be… — John Howard Copy Share Image
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it… — Harry S. Truman 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
Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
