“The preachers must choose some particular illustrations and concepts that will inevitably be more meaningful to some cultural groups than others. We… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
I would you say 25-50 percent is the likelihood that my cause of death will be suicide. Not because I am depressive… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“I believe in kindness and karma—which could make me a Buddhist. I believe in mystic healing and crystals’ powers—which could make me… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly,… — William James Copy Share Image
I love the spirit of young girls and women and try to keep that spirit alive in my life and in my… — Kamala Lopez Copy Share Image
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Every time you walk into church, the first thing you see is a man on a cross. He died to save us-not… — Jack Mayer Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are people, moreover, for whom even the absence of God is absent, who are shaken not by the privation of providence… — Zvi Kolitz Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given… — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’… — Rubel Shelly Copy Share Image
When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown...… — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
When the New Testament talks about doubt, whether you're talking about the gospels or the epistles, it primarily focuses on believers. That's… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I believe in one thing: the human spirit is immortal and indestructible. In the beyond there could be anything, it is of… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I hate when people fail to understand the difference between materials and spiritual stuff. Your servant breaks something and you're gonna beat… — Zinc Amide Copy Share Image
The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution… — William H. Pryor, Jr Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in… — Adam Clayton Powell Jr Copy Share Image
