You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Christianity is a marketable product. It has very little to do with Jesus Christ. I'm sure it has nothing to do with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who serve as ministers can be compared to hands: reaching up, they take care of the head; reaching down, they take… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Faith is not something you have to work up. Faith is not something achieved by psychological striving, or by logical reasoning. Faith… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“The first thing fading is your beauty the least trustworthy is your mind down here on this earth nothing's of any worth… — Fabian W. Williges Copy Share Image
Always pray to have the best eye to see the best in people , a heart that forgives the worst , mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales,… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.” — J.S. Bach Copy Share Image
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making,… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
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