“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Repairing a religious and cultural symbol such as Notre Dame Cathedral is important. But protecting the many victims and survivors of clergy… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is possible that the proximity of the target can relax your spirit, and if that happens, you will put yourself in… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
It was never about sex. It was about our bodies embracing one another and our souls becoming intertwined in warmth and devotion. — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“There seems, however, to be a problem with some of our more cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
We may be forced to consume considerable time before the spirit cooperates. For example, God would like to enlarge the scope of… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Faith goes hand in hand with the belief in a supreme purpose that includes everybody, a purpose that is for mankind’s ultimate… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: salvation is all of the grace of God; damnation… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
My faith in Islam is not unlike my faith in the game of basketball: Both require immense determination, focus, passion and discipline. — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“In Old Testament narratives one should see what the segment is saying about God and then see how the characters in the… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
“Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that… — E.M.Bounds Copy Share Image
