Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ ... Some… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
When one person has an imaginary friend, it's called crazy. When a group of people have the same imaginary friend, it's called… — Derek Queen Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off… — Nathaniel Culverwell Copy Share Image
A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Nothing like this archetype has existed before because… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country - whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one… — Scott Morrison Copy Share Image
As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I would like to say in defense of the Christian religion that there are nice things about it. There really are. And… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
God aims first to renew man's darkened spirit by imparting life to it, because it is this spirit which God originally designed… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
…religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being,… — Paula White Copy Share Image
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Praying because you're afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
“Looked at from a spiritual standpoint, our discomfort in any given situation provides a signal that we are out of alignment with… — Colin Tipping Copy Share Image
I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
If we truly had separation of church and state, religious child grooming would be banned from publicly funded schools, and we wouldn't… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“and possibly a more sure foundation this day will be laid for ruining popery and prelacy, the chief of them, than yet… — Various Copy Share Image
A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods.… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
“When there’s no respect left, Herr Kolbe, when books are being burned and people are hated on command just because of their… — Andreas Kollender Copy Share Image
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love. — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
![“When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.” quote by Paula White](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/345/paula-white-2031_body_when-i-had-this-concept-you-re-all-that_253784.png)
