Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
“The mind’s preoccupation with things of space affects, to this day, all activities of man. Even religions are frequently dominated by the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Christ paints the Father in the most beautiful of hues! According to Jesus, He is a God who is delighted at the… — Jeff Turner Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I don't really care whether Jesus had ever walked upon planet earth or not. I'm only interested in three great ideas… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“All church members ought to be third class passengers—ready to dismount and push all together, and push with a will. That was… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As Maximus further concludes, the three laws exhibit the principal ends to which human nature is called: the natural law grants us… — John Behr Copy Share Image
“The danger of having such willing volunteers is that we use them, exploit them and forget to train them. Then they burn… — Colin Marshall Copy Share Image
To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
When I dropped religion, when I broke that curse, doors really began to swing wide open for me and then I really… — Jared Cannonier Copy Share Image
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“By mobilizing relational ministry from how, by stopping only at Langmead's first aspect of incarnational mission (Jesus as a pattern for mission),… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“The people who are most vulnerable to overextending themselves on behalf of ministry relationships are people who struggle with intimacy—both with God… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“Before, Sazed had looked at the doctrines themselves. This time, he found himself studying the people who had believed, or what he… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Preaching with his whole heart, Whitefield was fully engaged in all that he said. That is why on one occasion he told… — Steven J. Lawson Copy Share Image
The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Something is amiss, deeply wrong, something is deeply wrong with the way we're living our lives collectively, with the way we are… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
