Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant Copy Share Image
Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them. — Robert Godfrey Copy Share Image
Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments. — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,… — Dan Rosensweig Copy Share Image
“Jesus' intention in this parable was to compare the only good soil to the ones that were not legitimate alternatives. To Him,… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Ill plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear… — John Proctor Copy Share Image
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account. — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
“Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.” — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
“We know that when we speak the truth found in Christianity, we are automatically “connecting” that truth with the truth that God… — K. Scott Oliphint Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark… — Elaine L. Jack Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“By looking at the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us, we totally miss the Point–like the two on the road… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic… — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image