life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots; The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“the church has allowed itself to become dangerously polarized into two camps: politicized and privatized views of faith. The problem is, neither… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“God takes the broken material of our lives and re-fashions it into something beautiful. Salvation is God’s gift to help us lead… — Lance Colkmire Copy Share Image
My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court… There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I think, that they are caught in a sort of argument in a circle. Their vague philosophy says to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man is more perfect than god. Although this woman's doctrine, in which she was brought up from childhood, told her than all… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls" "Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?" "She said the Pope… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Religions all over the world have for centuries been telling people to serve humanity, ut this has not produced any effect, On the contrary,… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew… — Amir Mohamed Copy Share Image
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“This is what spiritual warfare is all about. It’s not looking for a demon in all the corners, but it’s loving with… — Iris Delgado Copy Share Image
Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Real inner strength is virtue of those who have armed themselves with power of courage, fighting spirit and self promise not to… — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Mother energy is universal. It is the large expression of the sacred feminine that comes from spirit. It is embodied in all… — Elaine Seiler Copy Share Image
“We should all do what so many churches already do—openly admit that Adam and Eve did not exist, that evolution is a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism...… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out. — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
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