“Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.” — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Those who don't know my testimony could never understand my faith! — Antoinette Byers Copy Share Image
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. -Proverbs 1:8 — Bible Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today. — John Shattuck Copy Share Image
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion,… — Mojo Nixon Copy Share Image
One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I… — Pope Boniface VIII Copy Share Image
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image