The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
“Anger, resentment, and bitterness stunt our spiritual growth. Would you bathe in impure water? Then why do we bathe our spirits with… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Russian bolshevism, replacing eastern Christendom by the grim religiosity of Marx, produced a caricature of the evangelical counsels with many a diabolical… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi,… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“No one who sees the plain fact that all moral and spiritual values of human life are in the individual, can possibly… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Some skeptics assert that there is no other vital energy in the world but physical force, while contrary to their assertions, thousands… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The critical question is whether preachers are supposed to help people “find their stories in the Bible” or are supposed to call… — Thomas G. Long Copy Share Image
“The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will constantly look to disprove… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling… — Leonard Lawlor Copy Share Image
On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has truly practiced a religion knows very well that it is [the set of regularly repeated actions that make up… — Émile Durkheim Copy Share Image
America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“Guilt was—it was the agony of spirit that made every day bleak. The fear that you might not live up to the… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The experience of [the African] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
“While living at a boarding school during her teen years, she experienced a deep sense of loneliness that was exacerbated because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable… — John Owen Copy Share Image
So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Six months of waiting. Six months of understanding the inner workings of faith and the outer spheres of the world. Six months… — Tishani Doshi Copy Share Image
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The seeker has no beliefs, he is open and trusts his feelings. His religion is life, his God is life, he makes… — Chobo Copy Share Image
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