Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad,… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
“Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity.… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
More pro-active Vatican communications might be able to do something about all this, but when the Holy See is constantly in the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“When we fail to take seriously enough what our tribe has done to others, what its implications have been and are, and… — Mae Elise Cannon Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Many believe that abandoning the church is the progressive way to move toward Jesus. But from everything I see in Scripture, the… — Caleb Breakey Copy Share Image
“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Know the bondage and attachments from inside and from root to be free. Don't waste time on leaves of life, Awake and… — Harsh Ranga Neo Copy Share Image
Scripture is so counter culture. Christ was counter culture. It's not like we're supposed to be weird or anything, but as we… — Alan Powell Copy Share Image
“The challenge of ministry in our home is that we do not always feel very “spiritual” when we wash our dishes. It… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The Western world is in need of new churches. In some cases churches must multiply and plant new churches from scratch, while… — Darrin Patrick Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“There is not, there cannot be, a State without religion. Take the freest States in the world—the United States of America or… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You are ashamed to open your Bible and read that blessed Psalm, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” You… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“En Skoemager maa og tildeels være Theologus; saa at han veed at giøre Forskiel imellem Religions-Secter: Thi eet er at arbejde for… — Ludvig Holberg Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“You'd better pray your ass off before you climb in bed tonight. You better pray the Lord finds you some other line… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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