The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Christmases with Polish and Romanian troops, including religious ceremonies in crude bunkers and huts, were deeply spiritual experiences. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
The issue of providing women all forms of preventative health care has been and remains very important. The, the importance of protecting… — Jacob Lew Copy Share Image
Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when… — Amy Lignor Copy Share Image
All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -… — Garrett P. Serviss Copy Share Image
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
To judge sins is the business of one who is sinless, but who is sinless except God? Who ever thinks about the… — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron.… — Richard Zimler 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
You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Your Heart, Your Mind, Your Creator! Your Soul Will Follow.” — Richard M Knittle Jr Copy Share Image
The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives. — Teller Copy Share Image
Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this,… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
