It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I'm not against religion but if you have to force it on people who choose a different way of life then your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What was the use of conquering the world if they could not drink and murder and love as the spirit moved them?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die.… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
If all religions displayed peace in action rather than displaying violence and adamancy towards a certain doctrine. Most people would disagree with… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone…It's not too late to help a neighbor in… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've said so often to pastors, if your sermon can't get out of your zip code throw it away. It has to… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
It should be made clear that in order to live a Christian life, any Christian must be able to discriminate and hate,… — Bernhard Kuiper Copy Share Image
“At the time, most Europeans believed that religious conformity was necessary to safeguard civil order, and they questioned how such a diverse… — David S. Kidder Copy Share Image
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
“Of course the crank religions wouldn't like it, in view of the fact that their raison d'etre was based on misery, indefinitely… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm,… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God,… — Ed McBain Copy Share Image
At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves. — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, “Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject… — Jim Dodge Copy Share Image
“Or, if you want the positive but somewhat callous view, you might wish to describe Christianity as the gateway drug to supply-side… — Thomas King Copy Share Image