Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Neale Donald Walsch

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jonathan Swift

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

Khalil Gibran

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

John Donne

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

D. A. Carson

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

D. A. Carson

Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

Ray Lewis

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

Swami Vivekananda

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.

Tony Campolo

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Stuart Scott

All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us.

St. Jerome

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

John Owen

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

Robert Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

William Wilberforce

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

William Gurnall

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Henry Adams

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Pat Robertson

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Margaret Thatcher

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

Randall Terry

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

Joseph Hall

The life of doctrine is in application.