“To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.” FeelsFearChristReligiousChristianityModernHonestStrategyScreensGladTricksSmokeBeing HonestSatanAccurateFulfilledProphecyPersistentHypocriticalZealot Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.” ThinkingChristianLife IsReligiousHonestLiving My LifeI Live My LifeDescribe Myself Author:Iris DeMent
“I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.” BigsReligionBeliefReligiousHonestPoliticianBeing HonestBig ThingsReligious Belief Author:Tony Blair
“To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.” PeopleMenWorldWellsEarthDesireHumanityIndividualRealizingReligiousSacrificeHonestThis WorldGreat ThingsBeing HonestNobilityVulgarityFatherlandPersonal Desire Author:Ernest Renan
“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.” EndsPassionReligiousHonestIntroductionProstitutionTrue ReligionReligious Love Author:Lord Hailsham
“If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.” IfsThinkingMenFirstsStillsAsksNaturalReligiousJusticeMoralHonestMoralityTemperNatural Justice Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.” FeelsWellsWarStatesWaterReligiousPayMoralOur LivesSacrificeLandHonestDutyCitizensTaxesAuthorityOrganizationRegardFellowsBillsIncomeObligationGasElectricityDeclarationBehalfUtilityCivicsSuppliesIncome TaxCivic DutyMoral Duty Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by those who believe in the reason and science; they must be governed by the compassionate and just, by the ethical and honest, by the nonviolent and peaceful people; they must be governed by the libertarians; they must be governed by the people who believe in the enlightenment and who refuse to shape the society based on some childish religious stories!” PeopleBelieveCountryReasonStoriesScienceReligiousModernHonestShapesEnlightenmentRefuseLibertarianPeacefulProgressiveEthicalCompassionate Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.” GodReligiousHonestJudgingPromiseHatredIgnorantVainCurseSincereJealousTyrantsUnjustSuspiciousHypocriteHideousInfamousFalse FriendsRevengefulBraggarts Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.” BelieveGodReligiousHonestRewardsFolksRoguesUnlucky Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you are honest, you are in the minority; if you are clever, you are in the minority; if you do not believe in any religious craps, you are in the minority! If you are not in the herd, you are in the minority! What a glorious privilege to be in this kind of minorities!” IfsBelieveKindReligiousHonestPrivilegeCleverGloriousMinoritiesCrapHerds Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.” IfsMenAbleOrderReligiousCommonHonestIdentityBrotherMen And WomenHarmonyConvictionCooperationBrothers And SistersPresentingForsake Author:Pope Francis
“The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.” MenBelieveGovernmentMightReligiousPoorPracticeRichHonestPoliticianExpensiveElsewhereScrewsConfinedHonest ManScrew UpsVenues Author:David Mamet
“I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.” EndsWantedSpiritualityReligiousHonestUnderstoodBeing HonestComing OutReligious Life Author:Jay Michaelson
“At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of Christianity had plainly said: 'It is not necessary to believe in order to be saved; it is only necessary to do, and he who really loves his fellow-men, who is kind, honest, just and charitable, is to be forever blest' - if he had only said that, there would probably have been but little persecution.” IfsMenBelieveKindLittlesHas BeensSaidSoulSelfOrderReligiousChristianityForeverHonestFellowsBottomSavedDoctrineFoundersPersecutionFellow ManDefenceCharitableSelf DefenceReligious Persecution Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“If we're to honor the heritage of our country, whether it be in terms of religious freedom, whether it be in terms of truly protecting life, protecting not just the unborn but who comes next, the infirm, the elderly, the maimed, the disabled - that's who comes next as we get into the budget crunch of taking care of those people in the years - I believe we ought to have that debate honest and openly.” PeopleIfsYearsBelieveCountryCareNextI BelieveTermReligiousHonestOughtHonorDebateOur CountryBudgetsHeritageElderlyDisabledUnbornReligious FreedomCrunch Author:Tom Coburn