The Christian church is losing its grasp on heaven and hell.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being…

— Donna Freitas

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the…

— Charles Spurgeon

It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of…

— Thomas Paine

“I do not go to church. I don’t go to Christian church or Jew church or any other church. I don’t go to church…

— Michael Ian Black

“Thus that Upright Judge, whose three Letters my Friend having read, did well approve of 'em, acknowledging, that with great Exactness he had distinguished…

— William Stephens

“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“What if many listeners hold a profoundly different understanding of the concepts of God, truth, right and wrong, freedom, virtue, and sin? What if…

— Timothy Keller

...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a…

— Richard Furman

For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying…

— Ronee Blakley

“The “Founding Fathers” were not Christian. They were Deists. Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy, emerging from the European Enlightenment. Deists understood “God” to…

— Monica Sjöö

“I'm a spiritual person, she said. "I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

“city builders and rebuilders (Jerusalem) and city-loving exiles (Babylon). In New Testament times, the people of God become city missionaries (indeed, New Testament writings…

— Timothy Keller

To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event…

— Bernard Lewis