I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had… — Bjork Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event.… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it.… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
“The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
I try to produce music that is life-giving and inspires people to hope, but it isn't just for the super-religious. I want… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks -… — David Barton Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image