“Evangelicalism, as perhaps the strongest Protestant religious movement in the United States, relies heavily on marketing principles for its strength and growth,… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Much of modern preaching is anaemic, with the life-blood of God's nature absent from the message. Evangelists centre their message upon the… — Walter Chantry Copy Share Image
“But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not boast against and do not tell lies against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“John Calvin said: "It is the nature of faith that we want to bring others to share eternal life with us when… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I wanted kids to have context for seeing the horrible footage of 9/11. I wanted them to feel the patriotism that united… — Jewell Parker Rhodes Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do… — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation… — Frederick W Robertson Copy Share Image
Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
A tongue has no bones,but it is strong enough to break a heart,crash a spirit,kill a dream & inflict a deadly wound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit: redeemed, cleansed and sanctified by the blood of Jesus. My members are instruments… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what… — Robin Meyers Copy Share Image
“So many people will be lost to the fires of hell and ultimately experience the loss of their spiritual life because of… — Nicholas M. Cuono Sr Copy Share Image
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“This new spirituality is much more about taking off the masks of pretense and cultivating genuine heart connections that inspire growth in… — Adam Bucko Copy Share Image
Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“Ronny’s religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“ The Laws Of God, The Laws Of Man The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical… — Paul Hindemith Copy Share Image
“Diary of Dervish Advaitam (Naskaristana 2738) The other day I was reminiscing, which was the first inhumanity that lit the fuse of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a… — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God,… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
“¡Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Secular society has been unfairly impoverished by the loss of an array of practices and themes which atheists typically find it impossible… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was raised very, very strictly with Christian Science. I didn't have a shot or an aspirin or anything until I was… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image