You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody. — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
“Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is a hard thing to break through a habit and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will.… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun… — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Real Purusharth (spiritual effort to progress as the Self) actually happens when one becomes impartial towards his own self.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything… — Culbert Olson Copy Share Image
You Can Nod Ya Head To This Like Its Only A Track, But When The Bullets Hit Ya Ass Im Like, Its… — Styles P Copy Share Image
It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that… — Tom Flynn Copy Share Image
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older… — John Updike Copy Share Image
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the… — David Kim Copy Share Image
Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
“A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if… — Ron Carpenter Jr Copy Share Image
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Though the evidence from Scripture for editing and compiling is obvious and irrefutable, our failure to deal with it bit by bit… — Alden Thompson Copy Share Image
“Catherine Marshall writes, “Resignation is barren of faith in the love of God…. Resignation lies down quietly in the dust of a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated… — John Piper Copy Share Image
