The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“Mia shrugged. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Youth. I don't seek it through another because I have it within; it's a state of mind, a spirit that is free,… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative.… — Francis George Copy Share Image
“When radical acceptance blossoms in our relationships, it becomes a kind of spiritual re-parenting that enables us to trust the goodness and… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“The best churches don’t have stained glass windows or statues of dead saints or even ceilings and walls. You don’t need a… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
“Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing.… — Siri Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
“Oh, religion and talk of differences in morality, all of that us-versus-them stuff, is what gets the common man behind the war… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
American tohught re: spiritual evolutionI don't think we can say it's actually so new but I think evolutionary evolution American style is… — Julia Copy Share Image
By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
I am a Christian, I am a believer, and I know had I not been a person of faith, I couldn't be… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Think and mull and ponder and chew until you see God the way they see God—namely, as precious and valuable and beautiful… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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