The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be… — Gwen Raverat Copy Share Image
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Now I will explain to you the ultimate mystery: your exact and true relationship to Me. You are my body. As your… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“I am time the destroyer of all beings in all worlds, engaged to destroy all beings in this world; of those heroic… — Lord Krishna Copy Share Image
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid.… — John Green Copy Share Image
...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — James Madison Copy Share Image
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
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I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism,… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
![“This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b5/christopher-hitchens-117_abolition_this-huge-and-terrible-industry-the-slav_2271791.jpg)
