“Though Calvin (1559/1960) frequently warned of the noetic effects of sin regarding spiritual matters (see the Institutes 2.1.8; 2.2.18-25), he also extolled… — Eric L. Johnson Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings in a manner that is as fresh… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“It was as if I’d suffered a chemical change of the spirit: as if the acid balance of my psyche had shifted… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is… — Thomas S. Monson 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
“Discipleship is messy. There are seasons of growth followed by seasons of pruning. Some seasons burst forth with rapid change, and others… — Curtis Ferrell Copy Share Image
“The Cold Within" Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so… — James Patrick Kinney Copy Share Image
“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect… — Charles Loring Brace 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
“ 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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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 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
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
