Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
“ 'Shoot the wounded ... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they… — Lynn Dove Copy Share Image
The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
“In conclusion, those who, like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers… — His Holiness the Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right… — Margaret Bondfield Copy Share Image
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the… — Wayne Besen Copy Share Image
If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this… — Raymond Khoury Copy Share Image
“Only when Clark Nichols was not in the shop did the boys argue religion. Or at night up in the attic where… — Sam Wellman Copy Share Image
You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Over one million people died in the orgy of religious killing that attended the partitioning of India and Pakistan. The two countries… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“From the earliest days of Unitarianism and Universalism, these traditions have advocated for the compatibility of science and religion. Both traditions encourage… — Mark W. Harris Copy Share Image
The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world -… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that few people walk their ways with deliberation, stopping every so often to delight in the seasons and… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“She was painfully shy, but physically she was brave to a surprising degree. She loved few persons, but those few with a… — Eva Hope Copy Share Image
Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
