“The Weaver My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft… — Benjamin Malachi Franklin Copy Share Image
[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James Copy Share Image
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness,… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
He keeps my eyes open to giving and recieving. Not only in material things but by using kind words to others and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath; it came out… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences,… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. .… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I think one of the great strengths of Americans United is that it has such diversity. That it has not only people… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The mind of a man that loves God does not fight against things or thoughts about them, but against the passions that… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body… — George Combe Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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