One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
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“The good life is not found in dreams of progress,but in coping with tragic contingencies.We have been reared on religions and philosophies… — John Gray Copy Share Image
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“Jesus gives each of his Followers, not just his first Apostles, authority & power to heal every sickness, raise the dead, and… — Gary Patton Copy Share Image
Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally… — John Piper Copy Share Image
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“Compton Gage, a Spiritual breed faction who seeks to restore early days of glory through Spiritual Warfare, a holy war directed against… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
The whole point is I'm trying to get you to see-to get you out of this malaise of thinking that Jesus and… — Frederick K. C. Price Copy Share Image
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Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to… — John Edwards Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Many churches have de-emphasized preaching and worship in favor of entertainment, apparently believing they must lure converts by appealing to fleshly interests.… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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![“Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [ sic ] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b42/christopher-hitchens-117_american-football_who-but-the-sports-mad-norman-mailer-wou_1512423.jpg)
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![“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?)…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/74c/oliver-d-crisp-12863_atonement_sometimes-we-can-lose-the-wood-for-the-t_1996596.jpg)
