Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing.… — Siri Mitchell Copy Share Image
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
“Oh, religion and talk of differences in morality, all of that us-versus-them stuff, is what gets the common man behind the war… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
“I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
American tohught re: spiritual evolutionI don't think we can say it's actually so new but I think evolutionary evolution American style is… — Julia Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Think and mull and ponder and chew until you see God the way they see God—namely, as precious and valuable and beautiful… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
I am a Christian, I am a believer, and I know had I not been a person of faith, I couldn't be… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance … Christian steadfastness,… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile, even in spite of all my desire, I could never imagine to myself that there is no future life and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Memories like shrapnel, forever embedded, infected by what had come later…words of love and undying devotion, times of sublime happiness, lies upon… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? After that meeting the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
