“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. The human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that there was something pathetic in the founders of religion who made it a condition of salvation that you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Is God really real?”This is a perennial question for the philosophy of religion. Fortunately, the Pythons have answers to it. Perhaps too… — George A. Reisch Copy Share Image
“What prompts alarm in me is how you and your government want to ruin not only the potential of this of this… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“All of the problems in the world today arise from an inability to grasp the underlying oneness of life. The division of… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Besides robbing us of health and vitality, emotions constitute the greatest obstacle to spiritual cultivation by diverting energy and attention from internal… — Daniel P. Reid Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s my tattoos talking, but this is my favorite missional mandate. Because the perception of Christians as self-righteous segregationists is so… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“major argument of this book is that Americans are not just exceptionally religious but that our dominant religion has become exceptionally literal… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me… — J. D. salinger Copy Share Image
“But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave,-- Where, all the long and lone daylight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“Christ is our Friend; He is also the Righteous King. God is our Father; He is also the Sovereign Lord. Christianity can… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... believed that nature was filled with spirits.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Deeply ingrained in the Christian tradition, as in the Jewish and Muslim faiths, is the concept of a God who intervenes in… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Miserable man that I am, what fellowship hath my perverseness with Thy uprightness ? Thou art truly good, I wicked; Thou full… — San Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“As I work with people who are new to being present with the dying, I ask them to remember two things. (1)Stepping… — Megory Anderson Copy Share Image
“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Gramsci set out to provide a revolutionary blueprint that would pervert the Roman Catholic Church’s values of goodness and forgiveness into a… — Robert Chandler Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“1. The Doctrine for Men and Devas. The Buddha, to meet temporarily the spiritual needs of the uninitiated, preached a doctrine concerning… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Every one of us has times when we need to know things will get better. Moroni spoke of it in the Book… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Milwaukee, Rebecca. Order and sobriety and a devotion to cleanliness that scours out the soul. Decent people doing their best to live… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Submission means that a wife acknowledges her husband’s headship as spiritual leader and guide for the family. It has nothing whatsoever to… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“The inward man is faced with a new and often dramatic task: He must come to terms with the inner tremendum. Since… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“Conjurers, mediums, clairvoyants, soothsayers, those who hold black masses or seances, Tarot readers and Ouija board fanatics, those who practice witchcraft and… — Ivan D'Amico Copy Share Image
“The religious leaders of the day had written the script for the Messiah. When Jesus announced he was the Messiah, the Pharisees… — Michael Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“There are people who savour God in one way but not in another, and they want to possess God according to one… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“One sees more and more that folk either have head religion or dead religion, or a very shallow view of the real… — Mack Tomlinson Copy Share Image
