“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer,… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
“One thing was for sure: I had no interest in questioning whether Islam was inherently a religion of peace or one of… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the soul is questioning whether it [has] any patience, any faith, till God comes and puts him into an afflicted estate,… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The spiritual being wants to be Destiny and the Destiny wants to become Evolution, and the Evolution wants to become Fulfillment, the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Although interpreted as nonreligious, chiropractic is premised on a vitalistic, harmonial philosophy and fulfills many of the same functions as religion. More… — Candy Gunther Brown Copy Share Image
“In the cosmology of Western Christians, life’s challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with God. The… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
“Underline this thought: assurance, peace, access to God, knowledge that He is our Father, and strength to overcome temptation all depend on… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that whenever the evangelists Mark, Luke, or John mention the apostles, they call the author of the first Gospel… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“While it is easy to dismiss someone who believes in unconventional religions as ipso facto delusional or schizophrenic … there is no… — Benjamin E. Zeller Copy Share Image
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous, and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then the… — Juan Mascaró Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Wintrow’s words seemed to echo through his bones. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To illustrate toaster righteousness, let’s say God decides to use toasters to spread His messages. He incorporates his love into an LLC… — Sadiqua Hamdan Copy Share Image
What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“God encounters are to occur and continue throughout the life of a believer, constantly bringing each of us into a higher level… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
“If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Football puts everything at your fingertips. And I was raised in a way that focused everything on looking after your family. Faith… — Edinson Cavani Copy Share Image
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Being a Christian is not an acquired skill or discipline like diving or ice skating. It is a living, vital relationship with… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Many institutions of higher learning will grant an 18- to 30-month deferral to prospective missionaries. This will enable you elders and sisters… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you," she asked Rachel, "that the constitutional amendment protecting your right to follow Mormon doctrine is the… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
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