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
If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Revelation of Hashmal, which GOD gave unto him, to shew unto His servants things which shortly must come to pass; and… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think as we look at this problem of ISIS, it's more than just an army. It's also a fight about ideas.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
“If the sky has turned a darkened grey and the sea threatens to spill the occupants in the boat, know that the… — Ariana Pedigo Copy Share Image
We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
WHATEVER you are Going through right now: Remember Jesus came for you knowing all the sins you will ever commit. So don't… — Yalembirhan Almaw Copy Share Image
The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm die-hard religious, but I have my beliefs. I grew up right on the beach. We would wear flip-flops… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as… — Bob Higgins Copy Share Image
I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart… — Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni Copy Share Image
If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith.… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of… — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as… — William Law Copy Share Image
I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
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