There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
“The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most.” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“My personal savior is common sense. And as far as God goes, I prefer to believe in one that would want me… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion. — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Faith is accepting the truth that if lasting personal change were possible it wouldn't have been necessary for Jesus, the Redeemer, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“...for our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls... — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Archaeological evidence provides significant help in interpreting the Gospels. In a sense, archaeology is an exegetical tool. To ignore the evidence of… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
“Deeply ingrained in the Christian tradition, as in the Jewish and Muslim faiths, is the concept of a God who intervenes in… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“But it is interesting to notice that, while the soul is the meeting-point of the elements of our being in this present… — G.H. Pember Copy Share Image
Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“In the same way many Christians--whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations--have in their possession a book which will do a thousand… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Doubt is painful…but its pain is active rather than passive, purifying rather than stultifying. Far beneath it, no matter how severe its… — Andrea Lucado Copy Share Image
“Till the missionaries came to Africa and brainwashed everyone with religion, we were doing just fine, Think about it, they came in,… — Njogu Innocent Kiarie Copy Share Image
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image