My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. — Don Feder Copy Share Image
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
“Saying that your religion is better than other religions is similar to saying that your mother is great but other mothers are… — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh Copy Share Image
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all? — William Bennett Copy Share Image
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.” — Joyce Myer Copy Share Image
Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“The religious man renounces the joys of this world, but only that he may win in return the joys of heaven; …… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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