We worry so much about what people think of us and so we often don't stand up for what we believe in.… — Sadie Robertson Copy Share Image
The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist, eh? And of course there clearly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“[F]ollowers of Christ think differently than others. . . . Where do we look for the premises with which we begin our… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“In a secular world, which is what most of us in Europe and North America live in, history takes on the role… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The first thing to say is that the ordinary criminal law in this country, the Human Rights Act, the Children's Act, all… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
“Your natural state has no relationship whatsoever with the religious states of bliss, beatitude and ecstasy; they lie within the field of… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
“The Word of God reveals that the most desperate need of the human race is not a better environment, a little bit… — Carl Gallups Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“To babble unintelligible prayers, to read masses, to recite rosaries, to practice ceremonies of religious worship empty of meaning, this is the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Spiritual masters claim that the insights obtained from the 'original mind' in deep meditation cannot be conveyed in terms of rational thought… — Daniel Reid Copy Share Image
The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
“When every ethnic and religious group claims a right to approve or veto anything that is taught in public schools, cultural pluralism… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Biblical preaching must address three important questions: (1) What kinds of people in our community do we exclude from sitting with us… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“The first universal order to appear was economic: the monetary order. The second universal order was political: the imperial order. The third… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For men's religion to God is between God and themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the king be… — Thomas Helwys Copy Share Image
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image