At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“The blessing has been so significatn that we have continued our satiric tact [sic] with an additional objective in mind -- keeping… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism'… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“The Second Council of Mileve (416) anath ematized all "who deny that new-born infants should be baptized immediately after birth." n The… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith,… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Well, I feel that the pursuit of trying to know who God is, and trying to be known by God, can be… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
Peace in the head, peace in the stomach. The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER … Do I trust in God my loving Father or in my own puny efforts to “control” the… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Christian psychologist is called in; if it’s a spiritual problem, the pastor gets the call. We assume that our depression, panic, guilt,… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“It may seem that there are many followers of Jesus, but if they were honestly to define the relationship they have with… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
Evangelists have absolutely no desire to physically or emotionally coerce anyone. In a sense, we are like doctors: we have a duty… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“What a study in importunity, in earnestness, in persistence, promoted and propelled under conditions which would have disheartened any but a heroic,… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share Image
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
Even as I burn, So brightly, I still, As we all do, Struggle along, In the Dark, That presses in, From all… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must… — Irina Tweedie Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
“I, Wonder, say to you truly all that we are is just one motion of breath and divinity rushing together - to… — Renee Hummel Copy Share Image
“No doubt the world's shamans have run the gamut from true believer to calculating fraud, and no doubt many true beliefs have… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Was very weary, having walked in the sun about fifteen or sixteen miles, yet had the satisfaction of discoursing with some money-changers… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Your heart tells you your life path, goals, and passions. The heart has a passion so deep it burns within you like… — Sarah Christine Lalonde Copy Share Image
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be… — Prem Prakash Copy Share Image
“Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
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