“I am the deepest of unbelievers. Every neurosis is a religion to its owner and religions is the universal neurosis of mankind.… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies,… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
“Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“You they served me up the sun and the moon, beautiful works of Yours, but works of Yours all the same and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Divine grace is the power of chance beclouded with additional mystery. … Religion denies, repudiates chance, making everything dependent on God, explaining… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“If you want to accurately judge the spiritual level of any human being, count the number of religions that he is capable… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of… — John Dunning Copy Share Image
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“People who profess to have no faith, do not actually have no faith. They simply do not have faith as defined by… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you… — Austin Fischer Copy Share Image
“When the minister of the gospel faces the Lord God as judge, there will be many questions addressed to him. There will… — Eric J. Alexander Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
“Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image