Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
We know broadly from research is that religiosity does not correlate with sympathy for terrorism. It's actually quite the opposite. The more… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest worship comes from a broken heart. Sometimes praise comes from tears. Sometimes all we need to do is hand… — Rachel Hamilton Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, Joshua‟s vertically gifted murderer would‟ve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would‟ve… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
May God have mercy on my soul , for I am a born sinner , For I fall short to temptation. Crave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual… — Bill W Copy Share Image
I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body,… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways. No matter how you were brought up, no… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
“An outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Mercy without boasting, Gifts without terms, Goodness without anger, Forgive without reason, Any given time, I do my best to strive, In… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image