It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When… — William James Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us.… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Naheed Nenshi is a friend of mine. We - he - knows how close I am to all of the cultural, ethnic,… — Jason Kenney 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
India is developing a lot of soft power, and it's not just about us providing outsourcing and call centers to the world.… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day,… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty… — Geoff Stults Copy Share Image
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and… — Orlan Copy Share Image
“Even if you don’t believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other...… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to… — Peter Mullan 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
“When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others; if that doesn't happen… — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means… — Pearl Abraham Copy Share Image
Administration officials, in fact, have repeatedly condemned ISIS for its treatment of religious minorities, including Christians. But a bipartisan resolution now moving… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon… — F. LaGard Smith Copy Share Image
When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image