The spirit of International Geneva is not only a catchword. It stands for Switzerland's commitment to advance international cooperation and dialogue -… — Didier Burkhalter Copy Share Image
“That was a dhlang !" he said. "An evil spirit! The peasants down in the valleys hang up charms against them! But… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“My biggest issue with religion is that most seemed formed to preclude the idea of other ideas and similar to politics its… — Thomas Edward Savage Copy Share Image
“The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“Most social and religious systems reward conformity with approval and access. We're trained from the beginning of our lives, in almost every… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
The spirit of community will be revived as we succeed in devising ways to reinvolve people in solving the perplexing problems they… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
“The Bible takes a stand on every major issue we deal with today from abortion, gay marriage, self-defense, alcohol, sex, private property… — Mark Cahill Copy Share Image
Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This… — William Law Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The most important segments of many religious dogmas are not their ethical principles, but rather factual statements such as ‘God exists’, ‘the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Her religious poetry was surprisingly slender, and as I was eager to know more about her religion, I asked her about this… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Whereas reason dominates feeling, mystical knowing does not “conquer” reason—it envelops it, embraces it, transcends it. Thus, mystical or spiritual intuition is… — Christian de Quincey Copy Share Image
Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state. And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Thank you God for giving me another day, another chance to become a better individual, another chance to give and experience love.… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions… — Richard King Copy Share Image
“Above everything Ralph aches for unity with the external feminine caritas - blessed, soul-saving, divine love. Divine here refers to not a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Our belief in… — William James Copy Share Image
“Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“We can therefore express the major elements in the New Atheists’ agenda as follows: Religion is a dangerous delusion: it leads to… — John C. Lennox Copy Share Image
There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
