“Winning a tennis match is a bit like receiving religious faith. You can't get there by work alone. You need grace, and… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
“A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests;… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system,… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Having a positive attitude gives you power. This isn't the same kind of power that dictators and warlords seek after, but rather… — Lindsey Rietzsch Copy Share Image
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists… — William Daniel Phillips Copy Share Image
“...you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.” — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
“For anyone with eyes to see, there can be no doubt that religious faith remains a perpetual source of human conflict. Religion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act… — William James Copy Share Image
Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us. — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
“Just imagine how it must feel to know that your family won't be going to heaven with you- I mean, truly believing… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious… — William James Copy Share Image
“There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion.… — Franklin T. Lambert Copy Share Image
“If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The fact that religious faith has left its mark on every aspect of our civilization is not an argument in its favor,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“With my meagre knowledge of my own religion i do not want to belong to any religious body” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We should be alert to oppose the potential significance of the fact that some government officials and public policy advocates are describing… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
