An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It infuriates me that when people forget what it's like not to be a Christian, and they get into other people's face… — John Schneider Copy Share Image
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“Why me? Why am I family and not theirs? Our boats were all set adrift exactly the same location; why did the… — Vinh Chung Copy Share Image
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...we must all offer up a hymn of praise to the God... who is 'Lord of lords' (Deut. 10:17, Ps. 136:1, I… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
We Christians bring peace and grace as a treasure to be offered to the world, but these gifts can bear fruit only… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Each of us can discuss God inasmuch as he has known the grace of the Holy Spirit; for how can we think… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important… — L. Brent Bozell, Jr Copy Share Image
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North,… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love.… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love does not reflect. Love is simple. Love never mistakes. Likewise believe and trust without reflection, for faith and trust are also… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've always felt very convicted that I didn't want to work in kind of the Christian film-making ghetto. My calling was always… — Brian Bird Copy Share Image
You always reached out to me and helped me believe All those memories we share I will cherish every one of them… — Scott Stspp Copy Share Image
“The Christian is in the world, but not to be of it. This constitutes the basis of the perennial problem involved in… — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
