We do it all the time, we legislate taste. We do it with the tax code. Churches and children get a tax… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens… — Keith K. Hilbig Copy Share Image
While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“We live in a profoundly religious country, and we are a prosperous people. But we are also a broken people—a people who… — Patrick Morley Copy Share Image
There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“There is no reason in principle why the question, what precisely happened at Easter, cannot be raised by any historian of any… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A human haz no religion...belongz to no race..n iz beyond da limitaitonz of gender...A human iz one that feelz pain in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“So what if there's no sun out today...I'm full of divine shine anyway...at any time, day or night...I've learned its quite all… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed,… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
This celebration of The Bible will inspire people around the world to rediscover a beloved text in new ways. This is a… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“The people with whom you associate respect you if you live according to the teachings of the church of Jesus Christ. People… — N. Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Eating a meal in Japan is said to be a communion with nature. This particularly holds true for both tea and restaurant… — Victoria Abbott Riccardi Copy Share Image
“The path of least resistance never gets us where we want to go. Shortcuts always end up being cul-de-sacs. The key to… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in,… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
“What is seen is not the Truth What is cannot be said Trust comes not without seeing Nor understanding without words The… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I can remember in days gone by the pressure of feeling like I needed to conform to some sort of religious stereotype.… — Matt Tommey Copy Share Image
“To follow one’s own viewpoint, to insist that one’s viewpoint is only correct is called ekantik (one sided view point). The religion… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
“Who makes you see others as being guilty? The inner enemies, anger-pride-deceit-greed within you, do that. How did anger-pride-deceit-greed enter within you?… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In a universe where all values have been shattered, where religions and histories and literatures and social structures have lost their meaning,… — Jud Newborn & Annette Dumbach Copy Share Image
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“And even though the resurrection of Jesus, by itself, is meaningless apart from the unfolding biblical drama that begins with creation and… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
“I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart..." That's what religion does. It points a finger. It… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most… — Sarah Miles Copy Share Image
“I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal. We need to have pastors who are schooled in apologetics and engaged intellectually with our… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
