We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile, even in spite of all my desire, I could never imagine to myself that there is no future life and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance … Christian steadfastness,… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? After that meeting the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Memories like shrapnel, forever embedded, infected by what had come later…words of love and undying devotion, times of sublime happiness, lies upon… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Faith has not increased in the world, nor has righteousness, nor obedience to God. What the world needs today is to draw… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's no question that a public official of either party can take it too far, and it's up to the candidate to… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion.… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
“The Hindus criticise the Mahomedans for having spread their religion by the use of the sword. They also ridicule Christianity on the… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event.… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
I do believe there's a place for anger in spiritual life. Just as a mother protects a child, as parents protect offspring… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“we reduce discipleship to a canned program, and so many in the church end up sidelined in a spectator mentality that delegates… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“My introduction to medicinal plants transformed my health and my life, and enhanced and expanded my spiritual practice by connecting me deeply… — Robin Rose Bennett Copy Share Image
Illness itself can make you angry, enraged, furious, and it made me angry, enraged, and furious. I don't think it brought me… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors,… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
“When a church is not showing vital signs of growth, a passion for sharing the gospel and equipping people to step into… — Scott McConnell Copy Share Image
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image