The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that… — John of Ruysbroeck Copy Share Image
“When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become… — David R. Smock Copy Share Image
“These preachers and priests are no more religious and wise than the parrot that keeps repeating the same words over and over… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“To the modernist, “myth,” like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one… — Bradley J. Birzer Copy Share Image
“There are those of poor spirit and there are those of great spirit. None are without it but the flame flickers pretty… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous;… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I don't know what makes me me. Sometimes it's really annoying to be me, but I have always had a spirit that… — Sarah Carter Copy Share Image
You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
My faith graduated to a place called trust, that I know ultimately - ultimately, that God has good things for me. — Paula White Copy Share Image
Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Eventually incarnation Christologies developed significantly and overtook exaltation Christologies, which came to be deemed inadequate and, eventually, “heretical.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go… — Mother Meera Copy Share Image
We do not let slip from our understanding that America was founded on a bonding of many people, from many places and… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
There is a thin line between Spirituality and Materialism. It's necessary to avoid obsession with either of the sides to maintain Perfection… — Sandeep Shergill Copy Share Image
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Religions, languages, history was made by humans to live with peace, comfort and prosperity not to fight and kill each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
