To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a ce….
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue..
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma..
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the commun….
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say….
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, ….
Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties..
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense….
There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful..
We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others..
If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power from the mysteries of th….
Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken.
God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better..
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use..
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very….
One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources a….
You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people..
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy i….
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small..
A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious..
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by hon….