[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered; what has been said of… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . .… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think what hides under the surface of both approaches, though, is fear. Fear of God. Fear of there being no God;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when… — James L. Sutter Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“His spirit was warped by bitter vindictiveness and puerile self-commiseration, and he spent his days in scorn of the labour that brought… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values… — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for… — Justin Wise Copy Share Image
As a singer, I've had many opportunities to travel, and one thing I've learned is that through my music, I can be… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
“For this innermost reason you should perform all of your deeds without whys and wherefores. I say in truth, as long as… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“The greatest book in the world, the Mahabharata, tells us we all have to live and die by our karmic cycle. Thus… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Cultures and religions exist, and are explained, to the extent that they reliably express stucturally enduring relationships among mental states and behaviors… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
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