Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“We humans have a natural tendency to search for solutions and irrational explanations as soon as we are confronted with fear. Since… — Manuel Lempereur Copy Share Image
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“God designed the church to be a community of lifelong learners under the earthly guidance of leaders who are teachers at heart.… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
You might get up in the morning and do your devotions and say a few prayers and there you go. You think… — Jeremy Camp Copy Share Image
“Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
“How we understand the person and character of God the Father affects every aspect of our lives. It affects far more than… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“If you listen repeatedly to religious speech, after enough repetitions you will actually begin to notice God and His works where there… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
“But I should note, for all my resistance to organized religion, that I don't believe Charlie could have quit drinking without it.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism,… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
I think when people focus on God and not on the differences that they perceive between their version or their understanding of… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
“Love by faith. Love our enemies by faith. Love our neighbors by faith. Love fellow believers by faith. Love our family members… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Probably no other meeting we hold in the Church has the high referral and future baptismal harvest that a baptismal service does.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Invariably the failure of organized religions, by which they cut themselves off from mystery and therefore from sanctity, lies in the attempt… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He asked me if I ever prayed-- and I lied. Then he asked me if I ever got an answer, or a… — Spuds Crawford Copy Share Image
“What it is saved or condemned is the soul. If someone receives Jesus in his spirit and submits his soul to God’s… — Ana Mendez Ferrell Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The major religious fundamentalisms—Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu—certainly all demonstrate intense concern for and scrutiny of bodies, through dietary restrictions, corporeal rituals,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah,… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great data flow, that the algorithms are constantly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because¦ No matter how pathetic the reason, its enough to start war. War will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just don't know, what you just don't know until you know it. If anyone says that meditation and spirituality are… — Martha Du'sage Copy Share Image
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000… — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
