“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sciences have the view of looking at the world as individual pieces and this has been going on now for about 300… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
“The minister’s leadership of the congregation in its mission to the world will be first and foremost in the area of his… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
... the more the mind dominates, the more the ego comes into play, and the further people depart from their true inner… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thank you for this precious day, These gifts you give to me, My heart so full of love for you, Sings praise… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” If that joy ceases, you become weak and are very likely to turn aside.… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
My job on Earth, the reason why Kirk is created, is to make God famous. I just want God to be well-known.… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
“But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity;… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament;… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I was raised in a family where I went to church every Sunday and was taught the importance of faith and God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“The mission of Jesus brought not a new teaching but a new event. It brought to people an actual foretaste of the… — George Eldon Ladd Copy Share Image
Syncretism can be disturbing to people. They have often been taught, "You have to have solid faith and must be sure of… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The counterfeit of the spirit is stationed without the soul, watching over it and dogging it, and the rulers bind it to… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
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