I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“What is the soul?” a man in the audience asked. “The soul,” I said, “was the one who just answered the question… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to… — William James Copy Share Image
“...surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“It was made clear to me that I wasn't supposed to trouble the moody Creator with any pesky questions about the eccentricities… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“THE RIGHT RELATIONSHIP OF THE GOSPEL TO ALL OF MINISTRY There is always a danger that church leaders and ministers will conceive… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
“spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, we dismiss the two opposite dangers of bigotry and fanaticism, bigotry which is a too great vagueness and fanaticism which… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn’t want to find.… — Tim Lambesis Copy Share Image
When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
“Preaching has very largely become a profession. Instead of real Christian sermons we are given secondhand expositions of psychology. The preachers say… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“We know that a loving Father has allowed us to live in a time when Jesus Christ has called prophets and others… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“Your father doesn't give his devotion lightly or carelessly. When you are given a piece of someone like that, someone who doesn't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“So your task is not to transform into a superficial, sunny optimist. It is to grow to be an optimist by faith.… — New Growth Press Copy Share Image
“George Powers of Little Rock, Arkansas, made a statement which was read at a public indignation meeting in Los Angeles on October… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it. In A Manual… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
When I think about that kind of spirit. I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Belief in Jesus Christ is total identity with Him. There is no such thing as partial belief or partial salvation. A person… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“man should first feel a serious call to it. Next, he should know that he really possesses the Spirit of God and… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
“attempting to understand what could have eroded our sense of community, an important role has traditionally been accorded to the privatization of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
