Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
“When it comes to BULLSHIT…BIG-TIME, MAJOR LEAGUE BULLSHIT… you have to stand IN AWE, IN AWE of the all time champion of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you. — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of sola Scriptura, in a nutshell, asserts that Scripture is our sole source of normative, infallible apostolic revelation, and that… — Keith A. Mathison Copy Share Image
“For several decades, I said I believed in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and had put… — Shelley Ramsey Copy Share Image
If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted… — Ernst Bloch Copy Share Image
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Out of curiosity, would you be willing to take a lie detector test?” “I’m afraid not,” he said. “It goes against my… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“If you look at the world’s religions and then list them in order, according to each one’s number of adherents, it might… — Van Harden Copy Share Image
“Gospel bestows all good things spiritual: forgiveness of sins, true righteousness, peace of conscience, everlasting life; and all good things temporal: good… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The elements of love, devotion, loyalty I have found in the words, never found in humans. That is why I never truly… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We as a nation have a responsibility to stand up for the human rights of all people, regardless of race, religion, or… — George Santos Copy Share Image
“The world sees christians as people who use faith as a crutch. How wrong they are. The biggest crutch of all is… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“In no way can what the pupil learns, whether from books or industrial training, or from contact with forces and representatives of… — Thomas Lawrence Riggs Copy Share Image
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“This is the highest freedom: to have our souls brought to life so as to desire for ourselves that which is our… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
“The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction- faith in fiction is a damnable false… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“From the beginning God’s people are to be “missionary.” They are chosen to be a channel of blessing to others. But in… — Craig G. Bartholomew Copy Share Image
“Two suitcases, in one the wardrobe, the earthly essentials, in the other- manuscripts, the spiritual supplies, then you are at home everywhere-Zweig… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether it's Kendrick Lamar or J. Cole or Common there are a lot of artists, especially rappers, who come from a background… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
