“But always the noose of religious belief imposed. The need for prayer and penance, chastisement and confession and the meaning of special… — Annette De Burgh Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery,… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery… — David Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
“Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When people think about the ark, they're always thinking about all the thousands of years of religious iconography of a ship with… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“A statement of truth, and that is: Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success… — Felicia Martin Copy Share Image
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