“Most of them don’t mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He’s indulgent.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino» Copy Share Image
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Dharma [religion] means to carry out activities [sadhna] to attain the goal [dhyeya].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“George Washington rewrote the presidential addresses crafted for him by others so as to omit all references to Jesus Christ.” — Brooke Allen Copy Share Image
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Out of curiosity, would you be willing to take a lie detector test?” “I’m afraid not,” he said. “It goes against my… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of sola Scriptura, in a nutshell, asserts that Scripture is our sole source of normative, infallible apostolic revelation, and that… — Keith A. Mathison Copy Share Image
“For several decades, I said I believed in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and had put… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image