God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with..
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy.….
It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible t….
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similar….
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own..
I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to ….
America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that bega….
I consider myself more spiritual than religious..
We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralys….
Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remai….
I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous peop….
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy..
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religio….
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, and I w….
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its perfection. A re….
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained….
You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They ….
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you ….
Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' th….
The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty..
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yours….