I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance.… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Faith has won it! Fear has lost it! When you get full of faith, the devil gets filled with fear! Keep your… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
Gerard's spirit animal is a gazelle - that's how he's always answered - Frankie would definitely be a wolverine, I would be… — Mikey Way Copy Share Image
What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“In discussions among the participants at the summit and because of requests to the Draft Committee, there was considerable sentiment for striking… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Real faith is never something that can be forced by the state. It’s something that either be encouraged and smiled upon or… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If we accept, as we must, the theory of the indestructibility of matter, no less must we accept the indestructibility of the… — Howard Spring Copy Share Image
Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed… — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“The best ‘apologia’ (defense) of Jesus Following is your life ...not talking religion!” http://diigo.com/0odk2 ~ gfp '42©” — Gary F. Patton Copy Share Image
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The world is attacking Christians because they hate the name of Christ. And President Trump has been defending Christians. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The heat of charity opens the doors of the heart. The heat of charity brings solar faith to the Mind. Charity is… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I walk in the valley of tears, picking up some flowers of pain, putting them on the vase of hope, nurturing them… — Ces Peta Copy Share Image
There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image