“Fifth, consider demeanor. The young secularists of New York City are extremely sensitive to anything that smacks of artifice to them. Anything… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Our consciousness is a property of our biological being. At the deepest levels of biological and of physical being, all consciousness in… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a… — Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne Copy Share Image
Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“Faith?” The word popped out before I could think about it. “Faith in what? A higher power? The gods? The universe?” My… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
“One example is the familiar parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), which in some ways might be better called the parable… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere;… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“Kneeling at the foot of the cross, Christians have reached the highest place they can attain. The cross is the Sermon on… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As I speak for many in the budding new missional church world I have to share that I no longer judge the… — Hugh Halter & Matt Smay Copy Share Image
“The Gospel is a harsh document; the Gospel is ruthless and specific in what it says; the Gospel is not meant to… — Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh Copy Share Image
“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“— it is necessary to educate them from an early age to cultivate a life of faith through prayer, through the Mass,… — Fr Gabriele Amorth Copy Share Image
God gave us reason. He gave us the ability to reason and also have faith and I think that reason and faith… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God -… — Trick Daddy Copy Share Image
“The benefits of a philosophy of neo-religious pessimism are nowhere more apparent than in relation to marriage, one of modern society’s most… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
All religions of the world are male-oriented and are somehow afraid of women. The greatest fear is that the women can distract… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“In particular, they seem to have interpreted Jesus’s crucifixion within a much bigger—and perhaps more dangerous—story than simply the question of whether… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter.… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Other than the substantial physiological impact of prayer/meditation, there is another much simpler mind-body intervention that helps all religious and spiritual individuals… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any… — Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Most people measure themselves against someone or something and then fight their inner doubts to believe they, too, have what it takes… — Stephan Bauman Copy Share Image
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural… — Robert B. Seidensticker Copy Share Image
Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“any suggestion that God has returned to his Old Testament theocratic mode of operation—as in raising up America as a uniquely favored… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
