Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I," she [the Holy Spirit] opened her hands to include Jesus and Papa, "I am a verb. I am that I am.… — Wm. Paul Young Copy Share Image
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“In virtually every spiritual tradition, suffering is seen as a doorway to awakening. In the West, this connection can be seen in… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
Kurt Vonnegut talks about how we know there is another family out there and when we find it we get this almost… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
“Clemency, empathy, and leniency are the very chains that set us free. Fraternity and amity are our goals, our neighbors are our… — Mohamed Amer Copy Share Image
The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.Â… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever… — Wilfred Grenfell Copy Share Image
Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable,… — Peter Hollingworth Copy Share Image
“Mohamed Akram, explained that the Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“So despite Humphreys’s rhetoric about scholarly misinterpretation and the “inspirational” potential of his interpretation, I think it is in fact hard to… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you,… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
I went to a very diverse school and its so important to showcase a child of immigrant parents who is proud of… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
“Some religions actually go so far as to label anyone who belongs to a religious sect other than their own a heretic,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If man really is fashioned, more than anything else, in the image of God, then clearly it follows that there is nothing… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them… — Isaac Hecker Copy Share Image
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being a part of the world in a healthy, mindful, present sense means learning to have complete faith that things will work… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an… — Murray Pura Copy Share Image
![“I," she [the Holy Spirit] opened her hands to include Jesus and Papa, "I am a verb. I am that I am. I will be who I will be. I am a verb! I am alive, dynamic, ever active and moving. I am a being verb. And as my very essence is a verb, I am more attuned to verbs than nouns. Verbs such as…” quote by Wm. Paul Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/wm-paul-young-12559_holy-spirit_i-she-the-holy-spirit-opened-her-hands-t_256675.jpg)
![“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against…” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/john-adams-529_christian-nation_as-the-government-of-the-united-states-o_3141589.jpg)
![“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/margaret-atwood-40_childhood_i-learned-about-religion-the-way-most-ch_699817.jpg)
![“It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89f/richard-dawkins-115_absurd_it-is-an-absurd-law-section-295a-of-the_2936887.jpg)
