Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“For a long time then I seemed to live by the slender thread of faith, spun out from within me. From this… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The miracle of love is expressed through other people. When a beloved is sent from God—and no one can tell you if… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest mistakes we make when reading scripture is that we come to the text demanding something of it. Don’t… — Danielle Shroyer Copy Share Image
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“I am, indeed, against all proselyters, whether they be on my side or on some other side. What moves nine-tenths of them,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and transcend death, every culture must provide its members with an… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
All of us emanate from a source of well-being. If you do not have well-being in your life, physically or emotionally, then… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“Miserable man that I am, what fellowship hath my perverseness with Thy uprightness ? Thou art truly good, I wicked; Thou full… — San Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study… — John Piper Copy Share Image
However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“Be very careful, warns this tale, not to get too obsessed with the repetition of religious ritual just for its own sake.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation… — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“accommodate the quickly expanding population. Intrigued, Warren contacted religious leaders in Southern California who told him that many locals self-identified as Christian… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“A Russian astronaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing religion. The brain surgeon was a Christian but the astronaut was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“The stubborn of a captive mentality can be clearly seen in the formulation of national development plans in most developing nations where… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
“I could feel Monika nudging me furiously at this point, but I refused to look at her. I wasn’t feeling particularly reverent… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
![“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury…” quote by Daniel Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/daniel-webster-2347_authority_i-f-we-and-our-posterity-reject-religiou_3014095.jpg)
![“[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.” quote by Fisher Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef1/fisher-ames-19639_bible_why-should-not-the-bible-regain-the-plac_1033233.png)
![“Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things, for we are even entitled to greater spiritual blessings than they [the faithful at the time of Christ] were, because they had Christ in person with them, to instruct them in the great plan…” quote by Joseph Smith, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45b/joseph-smith-jr-1647_blessing_great-blessings-await-us-at-this-time-an_982619.png)
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