Maybe we didn’t have an impact… like our work was wasted…” I shove my plastic lunch tray away in discouragement. Sunshine looks directly at me. “Anything with God makes a difference! Don’t give up. This is going to take time.” “We don’t have time! We have until 3:00!” “We can only do the best we can,” Sunshine assures me. “The rest is up to Him.
If you are human, you are spiritual - if you are human, you are religious - if you are human, you are alive.
It doesn’t matter to God what we call ourselves, or even what we call Him. We’re the only ones who care about that.
A life lived for others is a true religious life.
The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious.
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.>the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal,viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.
No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.
اكتشفت بأن دولنا مهيكلة لتخلق شعوباً متدينة، من مناهج التعليم وحتى مرافق الحياة الأخرى، ولهذا لا يجب أن نستغرب كل هذا الكم من الانغلاق والتطرف والتعصب، ولا يجب أن نتساءل عن سبب وجود كل هذه التنظيمات الإرهابية في أرجاء المنطقة. فقد كان النظام التعليمي يشل التفكير، ويصح أن يسمى تلقيناً لا أكثر.
America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.
I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.
Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical.
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
