We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
“Fate looks at nothing. It has no discretion. He no longer considered it eminently desirable all round to establish publicly the identity… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would like the secular world to know that the Scriptures are about the things that we wrestle with every day. The… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
“regime also imposed a further restriction on religious parties (and independent parliamentary candidates), namely an amendment of Articles 1 and 2 of… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“The object of this establishment is seducing; the motive to it is laudable. But is it not safer to adhere to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“Society has become well versed in the methods necessary to weaken the radicalism of the Gospel by reducing Christianity to what is… — Matthew T Eggemeier Copy Share Image
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“I love my country. Holy shit, do I love America. In many ways, it is the glorious result of some very open-minded… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“It's interesting how Christians today completely ignore the four clear verses of Jesus saying his message is for Jews only, and they… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Whoever approaches these Olympians with another religion in his heart, searching among them for moral elevation, even for sanctity, for disincarnate spirituality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name,… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Christ is the perfect embodiment of the Spirit of God. He is the Son of God, the miracle worker, the overcomer, the… — Benjamin W. Decker Copy Share Image
“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Young girls think they know what their hearts desire, what they want the most. When really, we know nothing of love, devotion… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“When one speaks of religion influencing public policy, the immediate question is, Whose religion? If one subscribes to the notion that this… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“They worship a Jew, do you know that, Alex? Their whole big-deal religion is based on worshiping someone who was an established… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“You have been deceived. Spiritualism is no more a science than thievery. For that's all this is--very skilled dodgers stealing money from… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Those to whom God has imparted religion by feeling of the heart are very fortunateand are rightly convinced. Butto those who do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image