We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
“Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan. Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much… — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I believe we can all work to foster a spirit of compassion, understanding, and awareness within… — Kenny Stills Copy Share Image
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing.… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and am… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Above all one should accept everything, in general and individually, in oneself or in others, agreeable or disagreeable, with a prompt and… — Albert the Great Copy Share Image
“It is easy to find religion; it is salvation most seek. After committing to a life of Christ, salvation is lost in… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to… — David Thibodeau Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Linden was beautiful in spirit and in fact. Her wish, she told her daughter, was to be a beautiful woman and… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“However, no child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think holiday spirit can mean many things and I think holiday spirit is just sort of your state of happiness during… — Noah Galvin Copy Share Image
“Judges is the best book in the Old Testament for the understanding of renewal and revival, while Acts is the best place… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Day 247 It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus” — Deena B. Chopra Copy Share Image
If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.The imagination, give it… — Henry David Thoreau (1817â1862 Copy Share Image
“I can't imagine pressing on relentlessly through day and night with mind, body, spirit in a single state, can't imagine denying myself… — Jennifer Ackerman Copy Share Image
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Think of it this way, Mara. We don’t have the power to make the sun rise, but we can choose to be… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
“True religion, according to Romans, is about faith, hope, love; about the cross of Christ, and the love of God. It is… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
“Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason,… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing… — Joe Mullally Copy Share Image
“The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism, and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“Saying that a certain religious discourse is based on this or that "metaphor'' dispenses the anthropologist from a detailed description of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
