The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness… — Tikhon of Zadonsk Copy Share Image
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
When people run a business and open their door to the public, they must serve the public. That doesn't mean they can't… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were… — James G. Watt Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling… — Patricia Garfield Copy Share Image
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos. — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends in LA are devoutly religious people. I'm completely supportive and interested in people doing their own thing.… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city,… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
It is a third generation anti-Semitism. First it was religious in nature. Today, the Jewish state is attacked and that is the… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit?… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like… — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful,… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion,… — Mojo Nixon Copy Share Image