By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
When we are weak and in despair, our Mighty God is near;He will give us strength and joy and hope, and calm… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“We must say yes to the gospel, and that yes is manifested in life as lived daily; or we can say no… — Jacquelyn Grant Copy Share Image
How do they manage to go on living?…By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Our state ceremonies have a religious foundation. We have compulsory religious education. And the Church should be a moral guardian. We have… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
“Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where… — Sam Messer Copy Share Image
A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they… — Shubhi Sharma Copy Share Image
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions…… — Roger Etchegaray Copy Share Image
Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know… — Dawson Trotman Copy Share Image
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
It was never about sex. It was about our bodies embracing one another and our souls becoming intertwined in warmth and devotion. — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
It is possible that the proximity of the target can relax your spirit, and if that happens, you will put yourself in… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Repairing a religious and cultural symbol such as Notre Dame Cathedral is important. But protecting the many victims and survivors of clergy… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
