religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
“Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“You’ve been tested.’ He advised me to try and ‘forgive and pardon, and this way seek to become beloved by God’ without… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
“Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We need to stop comparing ourselves to others, and stop patting ourselves on the back for attaining artificial measurements of spirituality. We… — Dan Schilling Copy Share Image
“I was the daughter of my father's wife. I spoke in a trembly voice. I became pale, ill, and more thin. I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Only one person in the world knows everything about me: My deepest secrets, my hidden scars, my heartbreaks My guilty pleasures, who… — Rachel Copy Share Image
With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself.… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“When we open the Bible we must do so in faith that God has the power to resurrect dead letters. As Scot… — Adam S. McHugh Copy Share Image
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The world before Christ was a world without hospitals, a world without charity, a world without respect for the sanctity of life.… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“ The Cloud of Unknowing was written by someone who was exceedingly tough-minded in the sense in which William James used the… — Ira Progoff Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes; they are so proud of their religious robes. But what is… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
“The Zoroastrian religion addresses the problem of the source of evil partly through the notion of ethical dualism, which operates at the… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The Christian, the child of God, the Christ man who has committed his body as well as his spirit and soul to… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
You say them, you speak them they wait for you. You can apologize a hundred years but even your idle words wait… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Deists, not religious authoritarians, codified the clear separation of church from state in addition to the division of powers within the state.… — Beth Houston Copy Share Image
“And if the central religious image was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a… — Eisler Riane Copy Share Image
“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the authority to distinguish right doctrine from heresy does not belong to church leadership, which Bultmann evidently understands to be merely… — Hammann Konrad Copy Share Image
“There is no organized faith or denomination which has any kind of monopoly on truth. Ultimate truth does not reside in the… — Steve Daily Copy Share Image
“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its… — Allama Iqbal Copy Share Image
“The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to church but they cannot even… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
