“Religion retards intellectual growth, represses individual thought, is the adversary of science, the restraint against invention and the stalwart of what would… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine… — Merrill C. Tenney Copy Share Image
“Souraya thought those days that she knew so many songs about the misery of love because pain kept love within the boundaries… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
“Now, brothers and sisters, we must do our duty, whatever that duty might be. Peace may be denied for a season. Some… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Those who do not honor the Sabbath and keep it holy displease [God]. Some people appear to think that if they have… — George Albert Smith Copy Share Image
An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“Tonight, though, he could not help seeing his mother as a spiritual sister to the beautiful, needy and depressive girl who had… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
“Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
When you forgive a person, what do you do? You accept the situation, to begin with. And secondly, you forgive what you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
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I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“In “The Cost of Discipleship” Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes it clear that grace is free, but it is not cheap. The grace of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“This has led evangelicals to ethnocentrism, to asserting their historically contingent cultural values as “biblical truth.” In the conservative direction, this has… — Jonathan Dudley Copy Share Image
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“Kunley belongs to a spiritual school of thought known as crazy wisdom. Every religion has its branch of crazy wisdom. The Christians… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
“Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?" "I consider their disdain for her to… — brandon sanderson Copy Share Image
Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer,… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“by a prominent psychologist, Dr. Gordon Allport, and the Foreword to this new edition is written by a clergyman. We have come… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
![“Those who do not honor the Sabbath and keep it holy displease [God]. Some people appear to think that if they have attended religious meetings, or performed some portion of the service required of them on Sunday, they are then at liberty to go to ball games, picture shows, or resorts of various…” quote by George Albert Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62e/george-albert-smith-27734_ball-game_those-who-do-not-honor-the-sabbath-and-k_284691.jpg)
