“A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts – the non-religious included – is that religious faith is especially vulnerable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and… — Doris Betts 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
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The two of us sat back down in the swing and continued sitting side-by-side the first Day of June; moving to-and-fro in… — Kat Kaelin Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I really don't know why people have so much trouble now writing about religious faith. It is true that clichés can override… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“When I come across one or other of my fellow Christians ignorant of astronomy, believing what is not so, I calmly look… — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Other than the substantial physiological impact of prayer/meditation, there is another much simpler mind-body intervention that helps all religious and spiritual individuals… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but… — Jimmy Carter 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
“Be specific in your prayers. Carefully craft what you speak. What you say should be in accordance with the word of God… — Dr. Glen A. Staples Copy Share Image
With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have… — Evo Morales 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
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
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
“[...] I talk to the dead although I don't believe in ghosts. But it makes me feel good to speak with them.… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“It must be clear to those who look below the surface of things that far-reaching changes in our fundamental ideas and attitudes… — Hon J.C. Smuts Copy Share Image
“There is no evidence anywhere that he ever thought of his expulsion from the university as a failure, just an enigma. The… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Use wisdom when developing relationships and establishing new alliances. There are people who do not have pure motives as it pertains to… — Dr. Glen A. Staples Copy Share Image
“I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“But [religious faith]'s not extinct, Janet. It's become nearly universal in the fleet and is growing very quickly in the Alliance." "Yes,… — Dani Kollin Copy Share Image
“We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and… — Dalai Lama 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
“(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
“But it is just possible that Americans may be living on one of those boundaries in human history when the virtue of… — Richard L. Bushman Copy Share Image