“A true Lutheran pulpit cannot be a sensational pulpit, for discoursing wordly wisdom, philosophy, poetry, or politics. It must expound the Word,… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“Trying to control the world? I see you won't succeed. The world is a spiritual vessel And cannot be controlled. Those who… — Lao Tzu 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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 reduce discipleship to a canned program, and so many in the church end up sidelined in a spectator mentality that delegates… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event.… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
I do believe there's a place for anger in spiritual life. Just as a mother protects a child, as parents protect offspring… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The Hindus criticise the Mahomedans for having spread their religion by the use of the sword. They also ridicule Christianity on the… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors,… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Illness itself can make you angry, enraged, furious, and it made me angry, enraged, and furious. I don't think it brought me… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“My introduction to medicinal plants transformed my health and my life, and enhanced and expanded my spiritual practice by connecting me deeply… — Robin Rose Bennett Copy Share Image
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
“If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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