There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should… — Jacques Tati Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Being in the Word is Far More Important than Being in a Ministry...If You Are in a Ministry Without Being in the… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness is Adophe Monod at his best. It is a masterpiece, bringing together profound comfort, realistic understanding, practical… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“...the church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security.… — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
“Living in filth was regarded by great numbers of holy men, who set an example to the Church and to society, as… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican… — Candida Moss Copy Share Image
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I will tell you what I believe,” he said with simplicity. “I am an artist, and I believe that art is something… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Its like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it… — Michael Poeltl Copy Share Image
Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history,… — Tommy Lapid Copy Share Image
“Creating a missional culture is more than just adding some outward programs to the church structure. Creating a missional culture goes to… — J.R. Woodward Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
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