I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly.… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“It was the afternoon in the city of Orlando, Florida. Amid the hustle and bustle, the cafe next door to a strip… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I think one of the sweetest lessons taught by the Prophet, and yet one of the saddest, occurred close to the time… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy.… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren't perfect, but they provide… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Be weary of the Bible thumpers and habitual scripture quoters, because going through the motions and parroting His words, doesn't mean they… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our… — Jonathan Goforth Copy Share Image
Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
We may continue to expect the enjoyment of all the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution. The citizens… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death.… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
