Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.” — Venus Angelica Perez Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I am, but I wouldn't want a faith that couldn't handle facts.” — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“A Muslim who prays five times a day and yet beats his wife at home, is no religious person. A Christian who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life.… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It seems like -- especially in religious circles and Christian circles, we want to first talk about the things we're opposed to.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith. — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“A religious system is to be judged by its idea of God, for it is upon this that its whole structure rests.” — John Daniel Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. — William Law Copy Share Image
Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable. — Johann Most Copy Share Image
Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules. — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society! — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image