The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body… — George Combe Copy Share Image
The mind of a man that loves God does not fight against things or thoughts about them, but against the passions that… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Human psychology is that anything you do in a group feels right. People as a group can kill someone and call it… — Shunya Copy Share Image
[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
He keeps my eyes open to giving and recieving. Not only in material things but by using kind words to others and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness,… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James Copy Share Image
[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
“The Weaver My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft… — Benjamin Malachi Franklin Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath; it came out… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
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