The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
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Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? — George Washington Copy Share Image
When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us… — F. F. Bosworth Copy Share Image
“That kind of devotion, that kind of sacrifice, came from a deeply selfless soul. It came from someone who loved hard and… — Dakota Cassidy Copy Share Image
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced… — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
From the pioneers we can learn to have faith and trust God; we can learn to be compassionate to others; we can… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
A Christian is the greatest freeman in the world; he is free from the wrath of God, free from hell and damnation,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
“Someone strong, but not overbearing. Fiercely devoted, but not crazed. Someone who could protect me, but gentle enough to reach into my… — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is full of challenges, but these challenges are only given to you because God knows your faith is strong enough to… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity… — John Courtney Murray Copy Share Image
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury… — Aristotle 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
Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
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Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner. — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or… — William James Copy Share Image
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.” — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Delphi was the religious center of all the city-states. It was the home of Pythia, the famous Delphic oracle. This city-state became… — IP Factly Copy Share Image
“For eighteen centuries avid and pious Christians of divergent sects had overlaid the simplicity of Biblical scenes with tawdry symbolism, rude commercialism,… — David H. Finnie Copy Share Image
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I have a spirit guide. His name is Gray Eagle. This is why some people think I am a really crazy person,… — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
“A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
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