Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn’t want to find.… — Tim Lambesis Copy Share Image
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Each of us can discuss God inasmuch as he has known the grace of the Holy Spirit; for how can we think… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love.… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The evangelical and religious community has much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I try to produce music that is life-giving and inspires people to hope, but it isn't just for the super-religious. I want… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks -… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our… — Lottie Moon 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
I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image