The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The concessions we have made to religious faith - to the idea that belief can be sanctified by something other than evidence… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is he Catholic?" her grandmother asked on the way out. He's a drug dealer -- so if he is religious, he's got… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
My dad said, "As long as you're happy." I used to think it was kind of a very simple idea or philosophy… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim)… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don’t belong… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself:… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“treasure up these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God and I will encircle thee… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your… — William Law Copy Share Image
“Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
