People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“To be self-centered is to be self-destroyed…The preservation of self is the surest path to self-destruction (Crowded to Christ, p. 128).” — L. E. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love. — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
“When there’s no respect left, Herr Kolbe, when books are being burned and people are hated on command just because of their… — Andreas Kollender Copy Share Image
A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods.… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When this innermost wisdom is fully awakened, we are able to realize that each and everyone of us is identical in spirit,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“There is one God. The Bible has one Creator. It is one book. It has one plan of grace, recorded from initiation,… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
“If it’s a slip or even a fall in your deen (religion), don’t let shaytan (satan) deceive you. Let the slip make… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Jesus’s rising from the dead was considered as impossible and staggering as such a thing would be considered today. People in the… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“and possibly a more sure foundation this day will be laid for ruining popery and prelacy, the chief of them, than yet… — Various Copy Share Image
If we truly had separation of church and state, religious child grooming would be banned from publicly funded schools, and we wouldn't… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Looked at from a spiritual standpoint, our discomfort in any given situation provides a signal that we are out of alignment with… — Colin Tipping Copy Share Image
“Praying because you're afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being,… — Paula White Copy Share Image
…religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Pastor Jentzen Franklin put it best when he said that if you can find the faith to move beyond and get over… — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
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