It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be… — John Irving Copy Share Image
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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
They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture,… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war.… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell… — Jeremy Camp Copy Share Image
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image