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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious,… — Al-MaÊ¿arri
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — Thomas Paine
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development… — Unknown Author
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics… — Aberjhani
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people… — Stephen A. Douglas
I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization,… — Unknown Author
Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face… — Krista Tippett
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children… — Marshall Fritz
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church… — John F. Kennedy
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters… — Albert Einstein
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is… — Steven Weinberg
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of… — Carl Sagan
We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our… — Robert D. Brinsmead
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into… — Robert D. Brinsmead
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. — Barack Obama
Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived. — Ernest Renan
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course. — Alexander Hamilton
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship… — Jack Kerouac
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University… — Thomas Jefferson

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