Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence,… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Kirsch planned to go public with this presentation in a stunning, meticulously choreographed event. When he did, people across the world would… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their… — Matt Shultz Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Burridge goes on to say, “[T]rying to decode the Gospels through the genre of modern biography, when the author encoded his message… — Trent Horn Copy Share Image
“Not by might nor by power but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” Assume the spirit, the feeling of the… — Neville Copy Share Image
“Christianity in this region remained as much a colonists’ religion as it would be once again during the French Empire of the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Lewis was a scholar and deeply spiritual man, so it is no surprise that all his characters have to face the complex… — E.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think… — Yasushi Inoue Copy Share Image
I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“Pioneer social psychologist Leon Festinger made sense of that behavior in his 1950s study, When Prophecy Fails . Festinger and two colleagues… — Gershom Gorenberg Copy Share Image
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Faith is knowledge within our heart, beyond the reach of proof, is something between us and our God, it is the Communication… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“This is exactly why the preservation of the world is not a priority for the true Christian. We are not of this… — Curtis A. Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity?… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“And then there is religion. What is religion if not a guide to happiness, to bliss? Every religion instructs followers in the… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“We will only understand the Torah if we recall that every other religion in the ancient world worshiped nature. That is where… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image