“As a young person I was taught that becoming a Christian meant that I had arrived. But trusting Christ as Savior is… — Bruce Demarest Copy Share Image
Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“They must have His grace, the Spirit of Christ, to help their infirmities, or they cannot resist evil. Jesus loves to have… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
If performed in the right spirit, there is no higher worship than the unpurchased service to another soul of whatever faith, belief,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Wherever religion is resorted to, as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull monotonous round of home, those of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No one sets out to become an apostate, it's never the result of one abrupt, drastic turn away from the Lord. Instead,… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If a person truly understands the message of the cross, then he understands grace. Jesus did not just make a token sacrifice… — David Corbin Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Being omni-present—as every spiritual and religious tradition declares—it must of necessity be as immediate to us as is our every heartbeat, our… — Robert Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“..."science" as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
O you who believe! let those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have not attained to puberty ask… — Quran Copy Share Image
Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...Since the mind, which was meant to be reasonable and intelligent, has, by dark and inveterate vices, become too weak to adhere… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
There's fantasies about what heaven is like and who Satan is and why you shouldn't masturbate or why you should vote Republican.… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Never rest in serving God, if problems come in your way,go on. If people try to destroy your faith, hold on. For… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“the oblation of the Eucharist is not a carnal one, but a spiritual; and in this respect it is pure. For we… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“As de Beauvoir put it, religion had given men a God like themselves--a God exclusively male in imagery, which legitimized and sealed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“We all have different beliefs, ways of worshipping, and ideas about religion. I believe it is a very personal subject, and so… — Arin Murphy-Hiscock Copy Share Image
You don't want to be taken advantage of in a current endeavor. But you have been taken advantage of in the past,… — 06 July Copy Share Image
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