“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity?… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Like many other world religions, nationalism requires its adapts to adhere to a strict dogma. They must also provide a sacrifice of… — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“If I know not now what and how I shall be; if there is an essential, absolute difference between my future and… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Spiritual assistance isn't there to make things easy and have everything go your way, but to help you grow into the fuller… — Mark Borax Copy Share Image
“So there goes Jesus spinning power on its head again. His power was not in crushing but in being crushed, triumphing over… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“All of us, all human beings, are basically inclined or disposes toward what we perceive to be good. Whatever we do, we… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. And different ethnic make-ups… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Look at our fathers in the old days, living masterpieces as they are and shining examples of true religion; and see how… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
A person can have great gifts, great talents and great experiences given by God; however, we must learn to submit to Gods… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
“I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think… — Yasushi Inoue Copy Share Image
The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Pioneer social psychologist Leon Festinger made sense of that behavior in his 1950s study, When Prophecy Fails . Festinger and two colleagues… — Gershom Gorenberg Copy Share Image
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Faith is knowledge within our heart, beyond the reach of proof, is something between us and our God, it is the Communication… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“This is exactly why the preservation of the world is not a priority for the true Christian. We are not of this… — Curtis A. Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Beyond even any teaching, though, the aspect of spiritual life that is the most profound is the element of grace. Grace is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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