The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“You should observe, and have observed, in which direction God urges you most of all to go, for, as St. Paul says,… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“When I really want to hear from God, but He seems silent, I sometimes find I want to disengage from my normal… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there…For everyone searched… — William Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“What one believes happens after death dictates much of what one believes about life, and this is why faith-based religion, in presuming… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“Until one day when, as well as his spiritual death, physical death appears; at that moment God will ask: "what did you… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“People we have known and loved during our lives are often around us after they have left the physical and transitioned into… — Clare McNaul Copy Share Image
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was… — Ganga White Copy Share Image
Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Religion raises the stakes of human conflict much higher than tribalism, racism, or politics ever can, as it is the only form… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death… — Clyde Butcher Copy Share Image
“Zeitgeist is a German word that means “spirit of the age.” The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who… — Yisroel Dovid Weiss Copy Share Image
True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“While it is in one sense a result of God’s presence within us, the New Testament also describes a process involved in… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“In fact, go through the four Gospels and search the Scriptures for yourself, and write out every verse Jesus ever mentioned relative… — Kenneth E. Hagin Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is not a religion but a destiny. That destiny is nothing to do with faith or belief in a supernatural hereafter.… — Izak Botha Copy Share Image
We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Take it to your Maker - show Him the secrets of the spirit He gave - ask Him how you are to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It's not enough for us to mourn and resist the suffering and oppression of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. We must also dare to imagine… — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
“The best gift of meditation, from my perspective, is that I've been introduced to the Spirit of the Universe by experiencing it… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There should be evidence that there is demand for your ministry that exceeds the capacity of your current geographical location or facilities.… — Scott McConnell Copy Share Image
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“P. T. Forsyth, the English Congregationalist, wrote in The Cruciality of the Cross (1909): Christ is to us just what his cross… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Suppose that my "poverty" be a secret hunger for spiritual riches: suppose that by pretending to empty myself, pretending to be silent,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image