The argument that there was a social pathology of the English Reformation, that there were fundamental changes in English society and the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“they put their faith in their intellectual assets and attained material success with admirable speed. To speak in everyday language: they got… — Götz Aly Copy Share Image
“China produced no religious themes in the Western sense at all. The Chinese never generated a myth of cosmic creation.” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Whenever you find yourself saying what is the point when it comes to the matters of heart? Be careful of the spirit… — Khuliso Mamathoni Copy Share Image
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas. — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . . — Bruno of Cologne Copy Share Image
The United States has been an immigrant country. The Hispanics who come here are largely from Mexico and South America. They are… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“This moving story of a small group of people, driven by a passionate belief in the strict purity of their devotion to… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“The older I grow the less Christ's teaching says to me. I am sometimes very conscious that I am following the path… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Because evangelicals view their primary task as evangelism and discipleship,1 they tend to avoid issues that hinder these activities. Thus, they are… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Why do soldiers fight? They join because they believe in a higher cause -- protecting religion, their nation, defending against a foreign… — Peter R. Mansoor Copy Share Image
Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Teilhard de Chardin - French… — Angela Jeffs Copy Share Image
Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that… — Mark K. Shriver Copy Share Image
In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith. — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release.… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit… — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“I’m a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
“No one ever gave his life to translate and preserve the writings of Virgil or Homer. But many have dedicated their lives… — Larry Stone Copy Share Image
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience. — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Awake my soul. Awake my spirit. Awake my desires. Awake my light. Awake my mind. Awake my hope. Awake my faith. Awake… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image