The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
“That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith.… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“History does not end. It is a timeless repetition of human folly and correction. It follows that there is no single model… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“You are never late in the pursuit of the dreams. Once you recognised your dreams and visions. You must reach out passionately… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“to the world. God created both body and soul, and the resurrection of Jesus shows that he is going to redeem both… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“When I remove the layers that say I can’t, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.” — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“For the most part, contemporary sorjuanistas downplay the role of religious faith and vocation in her life. This understanding of Sor Juana… — Michelle A. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
