...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality… — Vera Jourova Copy Share Image
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like… — Nathan Gamble Copy Share Image
I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest. — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I'm pretty religious about the gym. It's as much mental as it is anything else. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
