Desire Quote by Stephen J. Dubner

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric…

— Stephen L. Carter

And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a…

— George Pattison

“The established religions no longer ask fundamental questions about our identity and our reason for living. Instead, they concentrate purely on a series of…

— Paulo Coelho

In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you…

— Dalai Lama

The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.

— Eric Ludy

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea…

— William Robertson Smith

“Religion, whether we like it or not, is intimately tied to the culture in which it exists. One can argue—with only varying degrees of…

— Phyllis Tickle

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

— James Luther Adams

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared…

— Pierre Trudeau

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“We often spend so much time reacting to religious traditions or a religious culture that we have little energy left to cultivate a proactive…

— Mark Scandrette

It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the…

— Sam Harris