On this day we give thanks to Jesus for giving his believers the GREATEST GIFTS of all. The gift of love, the… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable,… — Peter Hollingworth Copy Share Image
Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious... spiritual but not religious. — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
“Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?. — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
It is futile to try to explain time in a place where time does not exist. — Kasey Clark Copy Share Image
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery… — David Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to… — Joseph Leon Blau Copy Share Image
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
