Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality. — Don Feder Copy Share Image
As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
My spiritual connection with nature is basically what we all have - you transcend yourself. It's what happens when you see a… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally.… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake… — Annie Besant 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
Sometimes the greatest worship comes from a broken heart. Sometimes praise comes from tears. Sometimes all we need to do is hand… — Rachel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent,… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some… — Epeli Hau'ofa Copy Share Image
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
