Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
“They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts," he says,… — Marlena De Blasi 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
“Divine power . . . what mom would turn it down? Jesus, who is God, full of power and might has poured… — Bobbie Wolgemuth Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Incompatible religious doctrines have Balkanised our world and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western… — Marmaduke Pickthall Copy Share Image
“Little minds instinctively seek to circumscribe the things around them, to pull in the walls to the size of their own small… — Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khanum Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that… — Bible Copy Share Image
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It Will Rain If you ever leave me, baby, Leave some morphine at my door 'Cause it would take a whole lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Faith gives man a peculiar sense of his own dignity … The believer finds himself distinguished above other men, exalted above natural… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The saying goes, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness", which is true across all religions. But there is one thing more dear and… — Darwies Soeker Copy Share Image
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Over the years I've found it much more helpful to follow the advice of Sister Liebert and seek to treat each young… — Mark Yaconelli Copy Share Image
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“us to take our place within the crowd, to hear Jesus preach and see him perform mighty deeds, when we open up… — Michael J Ruszala Copy Share Image
Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, the Russian Orthodox hieromonk Fr. Seraphim Rose famously said that he believed that there was a spirit in the… — Andrew Stephen Damick Copy Share Image
“Jesus came to bring life more abundantly. He came to save the soulsick, to deliver those bound up in sin, to break… — Teresa Schultz Copy Share Image
“Judaism was a legal religion in the Roman Empire; Christianity was not until the first Christian emperor ascended the throne in the… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they… — Craig S. Keener Copy Share Image
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