I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would… — Marghanita Laski Copy Share Image
Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“...We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
As we attend the temple, there can come to us a dimension of spirituality and a feeling of peace which will transcend… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The stereotype of the pale, emaciated ascetic who has developed total control of all his reactions and responses does not fit our… — William A. Barry Copy Share Image
“For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Baptism is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“We’ve lost the real Jesus—or at least exchanged him for a newer, safer, sanitized, ineffectual one. We’ve created a Christian subculture that… — Jefferson Bethke Copy Share Image
I want Christians to consider who they vote for. We look a lot at the presidential elections. And that's where so much… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What snowboarding has always had and the Olympics has not touched is that spirit, that original spirit of creativity and athletes standing… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Should one continue to follow the faith of a group that's cast him out? Shouldn't it stand to reason that if he… — T. A. Miles Copy Share Image
“Spiritual perfection is not defined by external demands. It is the heartfelt desire to be true to our Self and the degree… — Benjamin Riggs Copy Share Image
It seems that just Being, the sheer fact of existence, that there is something rather than nothing, already inspires a wonder akin… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called… — Tom Quinn Copy Share Image
The sin that Jesus bore, and that we are now empowered to live free from, includes all the sinful warrior deity images… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
“The Enlightened spirit is not like some safe cracker whose ear is pressed to the metal while his fingers imperceptibly turn a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
