“I am not a churchgoing man. Strangled in the vines of form and choked with ritual Christians, Sunday service held no appeal… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“Consider the emotional patterns of infants. Have you ever noticed how changeable they are? A baby may be crying lustily, but if… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I love the spirit of young girls and women and try to keep that spirit alive in my life and in my… — Kamala Lopez Copy Share Image
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
“Every time you walk into church, the first thing you see is a man on a cross. He died to save us-not… — Jack Mayer Copy Share Image
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“I believe in kindness and karma—which could make me a Buddhist. I believe in mystic healing and crystals’ powers—which could make me… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly,… — William James Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given… — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
“There are people, moreover, for whom even the absence of God is absent, who are shaken not by the privation of providence… — Zvi Kolitz Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown...… — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
When the New Testament talks about doubt, whether you're talking about the gospels or the epistles, it primarily focuses on believers. That's… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’… — Rubel Shelly Copy Share Image
“If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This is devotion to God - the fear of God, which is an attitude of reverence and awe, veneration, and honor toward… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“Q. What is your only comfort in life and death? A. That I, with body and soul, both in life and death,… — Churches of Heidelberg Copy Share Image
“The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter… — Ronald W. Dworkin Copy Share Image
