We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My faith in Islam is not unlike my faith in the game of basketball: Both require immense determination, focus, passion and discipline. — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The two chapters of Matthew’s Gospel devoted to the infancy narratives are not a meditation presented under the guise of stories, but… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Equipped as he is by his very nature for worship, man cannot not worship ; and if his outlook is cut off… — Martin Lings Copy Share Image
My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion,… — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I do not know of any religion that does not declare women to be feeble-minded, unclean, generally inferior creatures to males, although… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: salvation is all of the grace of God; damnation… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“When we lose the centrality of the cross, Christianity morphs into a religion of self-improvement and becomes about us, about our accomplishments,… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“I would not want to live in a world drained of all religious feeling. I am not thinking of faith but of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Religious programming has the power to distort normal, natural and intensely pleasurable behavior into something inconceivably disgusting.” — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
My work in television is part of my ministry. My ministry is not religious at all - it's part of my life… — Jeannie Mai Copy Share Image
The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music. — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
“Out of the hobbled spirit of attachment, and the insecure need of belonging, come the gross judgments against those who do not… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often,… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image