Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be very careful if you make a woman cry because God counts her tears, the woman came out of man's rib, not… — Hebrew Poetry Copy Share Image
When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits;… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being. — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. — John Green Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God. — David Adam Copy Share Image
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Don't worry about tomorrow, just be real good today. The Lord is right beside you, he'll guide you all the way. — Don Cornell Copy Share Image
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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