Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It would be well if, in the spirit of humility, we recognized the true dignity of our regenerated nature, and lived up… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“The world is nearing spiritual death, and America is second only to Europe in the digging of its grave - a grave… — Gail Trebesch Opper Copy Share Image
We think the Republicans are the ones who started this fundamentalist religion claptrap, you know? It was Jimmy Carter. He's the one… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God.… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue.… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy,… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zen comes closer to science than any other religion for the simple reason that it does not require any faith. It requires… — OSHO Copy Share Image
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions,… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“When your experience, qualifications, and skills fail you. Let your hope, prayer, and faith carry you through.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“It was a spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“As soon as you express the gospel, you are unavoidably doing it in a way that is more understandable and accessible for… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“If church is about someone else doing it for us, then we will never get the victory. And for far too many… — Andrew Mullek Copy Share Image
“No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
People are separating what is religious, quote unquote, with quote unquote real life, right? And that dichotomy was never intended by the… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Forget Not: 1)to be patient with yourself. 2) the difference between good and foolish sacrifices. 3) to be happy NOW. 4) the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
