I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as… — Rod Rosenbladt Copy Share Image
You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Now, in comparison to both Matthew 17 and Revelation 1, it appears that the risen Christ, before his ascension, was not yet… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do.… — John Frame Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment -… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens?" he asked himself. Thinking about… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
There are so many different communities in the Ultra-orthodox world, and they are so different from one another in really everything. Maybe… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A whole generation is moving away from highly ritualistic practices into a more thinking, spiritual process. By spiritual, I don't refer to… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“Programmed behavior cannot produce the level of spiritual development required to qualify one for eternal life. A necessary range of freedom and… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise… During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn't fit humans. Humans can't possibly fit into it, so there… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“Some people say hockey is like religion, but that's wrong. Hockey is like faith. Religion is something between you and other people;… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“This, the Christians believed, was God’s work and not theirs. So they did not engage in frantic action to save those who… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
