The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he… — Andrew Sandlin Copy Share Image
The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I do think that religion has turned a lot of people off. Part of it is because it was all about the… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you have accepted Christ, your sins have been washed away, and you have been born again into a new life through… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the… — Philip Clayton Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy.… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image