“In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke,… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
“His[Jesus'] death on the Cross is the culmination of that turning of God against himself in which he gives himself in order… — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose… — Ann McElhinney Copy Share Image
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“You would think ill of a soldier who refused to fight unless victory was certain. The person who needs religion to bolster… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Growing up, the question of faith and the question of God, specifically with Christianity, has been something that's informed me quite a… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a thin, resilient, and self-healing shell between one's spiritual awareness and that dense web of confusion and often… — Edward Fahey Copy Share Image
“In Judaism praying for benefits is a very small part of the liturgy. Most of it is commitment of one's fortunes to… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
If there's a hell I'll meet you there, and if there's a heaven they're serving beer, and if you're an angel then… — Lizzy Hale Copy Share Image
“A great shift in consciousness is now occurring on our planet. This shift depends completely upon those of us who are in… — Robert Schwartz Copy Share Image
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Decide in your mind that you want to completely live by the absolute worldly truth (vyavahar satya). The one, who follows the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
“Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.” — Ricky Maye Copy Share Image
That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where you grow up, what color you are, what religion you are. It's just a bunch of guys that… — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A message to religious people: A liar isn't just someone who tells their own lies, it's also someone who spreads the lies… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Maladict had hallucinations, but Wazzer had a certainty you could bend steel around. It was the opposite of a hallucination, somehow. It… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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