When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be… — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have,… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit acts mystically through the spiritual father, and then when you go out from your spiritual father, the soul feels… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
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