“When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways… — Michael Kelleher Copy Share Image
There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Children, we should consider every name as the name of our beloved deity. Imagine that He is the one that appears in… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a… — Ronald Perelman Copy Share Image
If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
"Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory… The self-described… — Selena Roberts Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Roman blinked again and smacked Aspid’s nose with his hand. “What did I say about kisses? No kisses unless invited.” Aspid’s tongue… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
![“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist…” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/benjamin-franklin-65_atheist_my-dear-friend-do-not-imagine-that-i-am_1638238.png)
![“I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.” quote by Haile Selassie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/haile-selassie-7583_assuming_i-have-heard-of-that-idea-i-e-of-haile-s_803439.jpg)
![“I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.” quote by Harlan Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/harlan-ellison-2133_behavior_i-think-religion-is-presumptuous-and-i-t_1091710.jpg)
