She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Value freedom above everything. I said earlier that we all hear two impulses inside ourselves. One says, “This is what I want… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“My interest in spiritual approaches to medical problems should not, however, be construed as a dismissal of science; rather it is a… — Ann Cvetkovich Copy Share Image
Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I believe the message in the hymn “Rise Up, O Men of God” (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“(The dark night of the spirit) is more a deep and ongoing process of unknowing that involves the loss of habitual experience.… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
“"The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
“Pagan At home in the countryside I make the decision to leave your book --overdue at the library-- face up, 'promiscuous' out… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The whole world does not know God. The energy that runs the world is what people believe to be God. In fact… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A dead man cannot forgive sins. The gospel, as the present forgiveness of sins, assumes the new, divine, eschatological life of the… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we… — Major W. Ian Thomas Copy Share Image
What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The Bible is revolutionary, life-changing, extraordinary, eye opening, jaw-dropping, and downright amazing. It is filled with romance, tragedy, heroes, good and evil.… — Courtney Joseph Copy Share Image
The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If a man is to be saved it will be through faith, or not at all. But because he is spiritually lifeless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Ledger art represents a spirit which has lasted through the hardships and turmoil. It is my goal and ambition that this style… — Michael Horse Copy Share Image
Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Miserable man that I am, what fellowship hath my perverseness with Thy uprightness ? Thou art truly good, I wicked; Thou full… — San Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
All of us emanate from a source of well-being. If you do not have well-being in your life, physically or emotionally, then… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and transcend death, every culture must provide its members with an… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image