A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large… — Catherine L. Albanese Copy Share Image
No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist:… — Mia Bloom Copy Share Image
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue,… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down… — Lola Montez Copy Share Image
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the acts by which governments and societies repress and control the religious lives of people are mostly quotidian and unspectacular, taking… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Having a positive attitude gives you power. This isn't the same kind of power that dictators and warlords seek after, but rather… — Lindsey Rietzsch Copy Share Image
“There he was, skipping lightly across the surface of the water. He caught my eye and gave me that shit-eating grin again.… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when… — Stephen L. Richards Copy Share Image
The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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