Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems.… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part… — Steven Emerson Copy Share Image
If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence.… — Eddie Russo Copy Share Image
What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding.… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
