“Has it ever occurred to you," she asked Rachel, "that the constitutional amendment protecting your right to follow Mormon doctrine is the… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
Many institutions of higher learning will grant an 18- to 30-month deferral to prospective missionaries. This will enable you elders and sisters… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Religious freedom, then, is the freedom of human will, reason, and conscience, of human souls and spirits, to explore and embrace whatever… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“ He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an… — Walter J. Moore Copy Share Image
The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
“There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers,… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Underline this thought: assurance, peace, access to God, knowledge that He is our Father, and strength to overcome temptation all depend on… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The spiritual being wants to be Destiny and the Destiny wants to become Evolution, and the Evolution wants to become Fulfillment, the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Although interpreted as nonreligious, chiropractic is premised on a vitalistic, harmonial philosophy and fulfills many of the same functions as religion. More… — Candy Gunther Brown Copy Share Image
“In the cosmology of Western Christians, life’s challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with God. The… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that whenever the evangelists Mark, Luke, or John mention the apostles, they call the author of the first Gospel… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“While it is easy to dismiss someone who believes in unconventional religions as ipso facto delusional or schizophrenic … there is no… — Benjamin E. Zeller Copy Share Image
“If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous, and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then the… — Juan Mascaró Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“Wintrow’s words seemed to echo through his bones. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“My friend’s experience reminded me that the search for a perfect religious community is a futile one. As the Trappist monk Thomas… — James Martin Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
“Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
