“Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I tell you this: You always get what you create, and you are always creating. I do not make a judgment about… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. -Ephesians 5:33 — Bible Copy Share Image
We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true.... If you do something… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up… — Lola Montez Copy Share Image
I am far more concerned about policies of the Democratic administration and Democratic Party that infringe on the rights of religious institutions… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations And when Tragedy happens… — Sonny Cele Copy Share Image
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John… — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
