The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown… — William James Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The problem with most religious people is they try to earn grace but you can’t earn it. And as long as you’re… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No… — John Corapi Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity is not measured by how much scripture you quote or how loud and long your prayers. Spiritual maturity is becoming… — Collins Hasty Copy Share Image
When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.'… — Don Adams Copy Share Image
Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a… — James R. Lewis Copy Share Image
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Resolve: “I will engage in a religious life only for the love of God; and I will endeavor to act only for… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is… — John Green Copy Share Image
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