Quotes of: State-religion Keyword

Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains such things any better? Just because religion attemp...

Debunking Darwin's God: A Case Against BioLogos and Theistic Evolution

Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they would certainly not be ‘Christian’ or ‘Jewish’ or ‘Muslim’ or any other established rel...

Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Kwame Nkrumah

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Zadie Smith

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

Mstislav Rostropovich

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

Barbara Mikulski

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

George Washington

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

Julius Streicher

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion/The Natural History of Religion

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Brisingr

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India

Humanity is higher than religion, so says my religion.

I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

To take Christ into our well-ordered, well-kept lives is in many ways to ask for trouble, for he will not leave well enough alone.

Leaving Religion, Following Jesus