Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in… — Lahiri Mahasaya 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
Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them.… — Mathew Staver Copy Share Image
I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way…What you are in… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end… — Peter Krause Copy Share Image
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God.… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided… — Adnan Pachachi Copy Share Image
We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is… — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man.… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image