... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.” — Bede Jarrett Copy Share Image
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its… — John Walford Copy Share Image
There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
