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
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I'm not a deeply religious person and I don't really know if there's a God or not and I don't really even… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession -… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but… — Jessicka Copy Share Image
Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it;… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
