I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance.… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Real faith is never something that can be forced by the state. It’s something that either be encouraged and smiled upon or… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Faith has won it! Fear has lost it! When you get full of faith, the devil gets filled with fear! Keep your… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Her religion--perhaps, Alwyn thought, American Christianity as a whole--was a religion of ideal prose; all the beauty it had was the elegance… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
“It is better to have a Christian’s days of sorrows than an unbeliever’s days of fun; better to have a Christian’s sorrows… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“All in all, Christian nation proponents commit several errors in their claims about the religious beliefs of the Founders. Their claims isolate… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Religious fanaticism is not the only clear and present danger in our world. The greatest dangers confronting human kind are still those… — Tina Beattie Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we accept, as we must, the theory of the indestructibility of matter, no less must we accept the indestructibility of the… — Howard Spring Copy Share Image
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed… — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists." — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
In the long run, the government can't bring revival; only the Church can do that. But government can keep us safe and… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker.… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Faith honors God and God honors faith! God will never lead us to the place where He cannot guide us. He will… — Albert Kang Copy Share Image
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Spiritually, I just have an innate feeling about things and individuals in life and I'm touched in that way that I can't… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized;… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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