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The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Great Infidels (1881)
- Anti-Religion
In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Demian (1919), p. 9. Prologue
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Christianity
- Women
Our faiths are similar — it’s merely our religions that may differ.
Stan Lee1922–2018“Unlikely Saints: Stan Lee, Soupy Sales and the Golden Rule” by Peter M. Wallace, The Huffington Post (10 August 2010)
- Faith
My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (2005)
- Science
I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
George MacDonald1824–1905From a letter to his father, quoted in George MacDonald and His Wife (1924) by Greville MacDonald
- Christianity
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902“What We Believe In”, written in Chicago (3 March 1894), Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, vol. 4
- Education
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam1931–2015In: Philosophy & Social Action (2003)
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Costly Grace”, p. 45
- Christianity
Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 142
- Christianity
- Good & Evil
The book of Genesis is a male declaration of independence from the ancient mother-cults. Its challenge to nature, so sexist to modern ears, marks one of the crucial moments in western history.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 40
- History
When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown1933–2006Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York.
- Happiness
This age above all ages is a period in history when it should be our prime duty to preach the Gospel of Grace to all our fellow men and women.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin (28 October 1966)
- Christianity
We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin (28 October 1966)
- Christianity
- Forgiveness
The symbols of religion are ciphers of which the key is to be found in moral experience. It is in vain we pore over the ciphers unless we possess the key.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2: Religion
- Morality