Best intentions Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions,…

— John Piper

“Outside, most people knew that decades ago, the religious fundamentalists lost the ability to transform society when they became a political movement. Their boycotts…

— Sigmund Brouwer

“A modern reader of literal inclinations might also see the destruction of the historic churches of Africa and Asia as a form of punishment.…

— Philip Jenkins

“American fundamentalism’s original sentiments were as radically democratic in theory as they have become repressive in practice, its dream not that of Christian theocracy…

— Jeff Sharlet

Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The…

— Jayne Meadows

“Wesley and most of his descendants developed a doctrine of Scripture that focused on its role in transforming the believer’s inner being as the…

— Al Truesdale

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

— Lucretius

“With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive"…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

“Steris had called the Path a simple religion. Perhaps it was. There was only one basic tenet: Do more good than harm. There were…

— Brandon Sanderson

“No longer do our beliefs point back to a divine law code or an essential, in-built sense of good and evil; they exist only…

— Louis A. Markos

“In trying to understand the death of churches, several possible explanations come to mind, some much less convincing to modern ears than others. Throughout…

— Philip Jenkins

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to…

— Robert A. Heinlein