“A non-religious man today ignores what he considers sacred but, in the structure of his consciousness, could not be without the ideas… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“We are educated for whatever sake. For Nigeria to move forward, we must stop comparison and ignore religious views in dealing with… — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
The serious person becomes handicapped, he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior… — James Laver Copy Share Image
I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances,… — William James Copy Share Image
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I'm very religious, you know. Now, OK, if by 'religious', you mean that I go to church every Sunday, read the bible… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive.… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Yet, know this if you understand nothing else: You have a right to your joy; children or no children; spouse or no… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The Lord greatly loves the repenting sinner and mercifully presses him to His bosom: "Where were you, My child? I was waiting… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there isnext to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image