Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Carl Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Edward Hoagland

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Gibbon

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Penny Junor

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

Diane Ackerman

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

David Procopio

There are many details about this person and how she died that may be known only to her killer and little by little by us.

Alexandra Stoddard

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

Alan Watts

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

Chaka Khan

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

Bernard of Clairvaux

God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.

Alan Cohen

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

Anthony de Mello

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Albert Schweitzer

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

Dallas Willard

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Deepak Chopra

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.