Animosity Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The faithful Christian cannot separate his life into sacred and secular, worship and work.

— Ravi Zacharias

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

— Georgia Harkness

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

— Karl Marx

“When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John,…

— G.K. Chesterton

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

— William Bennett

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

God has not granted civic rulers authority over the doctrine, practice, or polity of the church.

— John MacArthur

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

— Marya Mannes

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more…

— Robert Southey

A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk