Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained… — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image
The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I still remember how upset I was in the aftermath of President Obama's election, where people in Republican leadership didn't say that,… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood 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
“I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
India is developing a lot of soft power, and it's not just about us providing outsourcing and call centers to the world.… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
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