One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Discipline helps us not to repeat mistakes, and the fear of discipline helps us not to make mistakes. The fear of God… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
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The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“...the white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He… — R.S. Belcher Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is important to know what experiences to put your faith in. If you have an unpleasant experience, have faith that you… — Nate Copy Share Image
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'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
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We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
“The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
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Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
For men's religion to God is between God and themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the king be… — Thomas Helwys Copy Share Image
“The first universal order to appear was economic: the monetary order. The second universal order was political: the imperial order. The third… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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