“Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures. Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched… — Gerald Coates Copy Share Image
“We are not alone. The spirits of those gone before guide our steps,our traditions,our beliefs. We are not alone. The care of… — Lorraine Carey Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate one another,” Jonathan Swift once observed, “but not enough to make us love… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but whose Facebook page… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“No, my friend; if I do not turn Christian like so many others, it is not because of the religious practices. It… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
The religious neutrality in our schools is, I would argue, one of our strengths. Teachers cannot inhibit or deride religion. But this… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't die so we could have religion. He died so we could have a deep, intimate, personal relationship with God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Really it has been a struggle to overcome some of the misconceptions that are put on you when you do something that… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience…Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe in God, and I love my brother. But I don't want any religion that will demand I lose my individuality.” — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another" -Jonathon Swift” — Ivan D'Amico Copy Share Image
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I always pray when I write songs that my spirit guides, or whoever is with me, inspiring me, would let me speak… — India Arie Copy Share Image
We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find… — George Carey Copy Share Image
I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal,… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral… — Richard Land Copy Share Image
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
