I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in… — Lisa Williams Copy Share Image
“If any thought feels too harsh, shaming, or diminishing of yourself or others, it is not likely the voice of God…That is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“We have been slow to recognize the degree to which religious faith perpetuates man's inhumanity to man.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of… — Elizabeth Jane Howard 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
“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
“The concessions we have made to religious faith - to the idea that belief can be sanctified by something other than evidence… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Saul is a devout believer only in himself, and he was convinced that the religious faith of others, if manipulated skillfully, was… — Rysa Walker Copy Share Image
If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion,… — Dalai Lama 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
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Once we know how observant a person is in terms of church attendance, nothing that we can discover about the content of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on… — Dawn M Harvey Copy Share Image
“It was the US that turned this country into a killing field. Why won’t we face this? Why won’t we take responsibility?… — Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
“Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Religious faith can help foster a truly global consciousness and restore the bonds between human hearts. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity… — Beth Nimmo Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
