Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Ill plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear… — John Proctor Copy Share Image
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,… — Dan Rosensweig Copy Share Image
“You are a soul and spirit incarnated in a physical form, and there are myriad tools available to you to ease the… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From a historical perspective, the spiritual journey is always tragic, for it is a lonely path fit for individuals rather than for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty.… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
“True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there is no… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
“When you make a solid commitment to restructure the spiritual vitality in yourself, there is no end to the healing that you… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The distinction between the church invisible and the church visible lies at the heart of the conflict between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.” — Ryan M. McGraw Copy Share Image
The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace - and it… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. — Majid Khadduri Copy Share Image
America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families. — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi Copy Share Image
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
[Bob Ferguson] won that huge ruling against the first version of the Muslim ban that resulted in it being stopped dead in… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me… — D Dale Gulledge Copy Share Image
I love sportsmen's spirit, their ability to come back and override negativity. Michael Owen has been written off so many times, but… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Delphi was the religious center of all the city-states. It was the home of Pythia, the famous Delphic oracle. This city-state became… — IP Factly Copy Share Image
“For eighteen centuries avid and pious Christians of divergent sects had overlaid the simplicity of Biblical scenes with tawdry symbolism, rude commercialism,… — David H. Finnie Copy Share Image
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or… — William James Copy Share Image
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