Capable Quote by Don Cupitt

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing…

— Sigmund Freud

The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the…

— Emma Goldman

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God,…

— Dan Kimball

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

— Timothy Keller

... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind,…

— David Hume

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is…

— Anonymous

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

— David Novak

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

— Mary Baker Eddy

Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives…

— Ellen Key