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Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“the gay rights agenda must trump religious freedom concerns. To wit, Feldblum has authored the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which turns some… — Floyd G Brown Copy Share Image
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“People need to see that the gospel belongs in their workplace, their kitchen, their school, their bedroom, their backyard, and their van.… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I don't think people understand - atheists are really a disenfranchised minority in this country. There are six constitutions right now -… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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“Moving from Hope to Faith to Knowledge Step 1: Realize that your life is meant to progress. Step 2: Reflect on how… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
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“The new and needed apologetics will differ from previous apologetic models geared at convincing people solely or even mainly from a rationalistic… — Reggie McNeal Copy Share Image
“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“Without spiritual development we are like travelers on a dark country road, with only a candle to light our way. But when… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“The Apostle Paul, quoting an Old Testament prophet, summarized what it means to be a believer when he wrote, “The just shall… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“in prayer. The Holy Spirit teaches, inspires, and illumines God’s Word to us. He mediates the Word of God and assists us… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The number of books on theology must be reduced and only the best ones published. It is not many books that make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“It wasn't Mamigonian who made my parents stay in San Ignacio instead of moving to Fresno, say, where there really was an… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies… — John Powell Copy Share Image
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“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
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Treat all men alike… give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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