Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you… — John Cole Copy Share Image
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in… — Alan Dershowitz 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
“The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one’s) say, ‘Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when… — Philip Clayton Copy Share Image
In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our… — Cal Thomas 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed,… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My… — Jodi Picoult 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
In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst.… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
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