The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
“One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Those who see Me in everything and everything in Me, know the staggering truth that the Self in the individual is the… — The Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
“Blind adherence to contextualization alters our preaching in at least three ways, and none of them is for the better. First, it… — David R. Helm Copy Share Image
The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Become Amish? If you admire our faith, strengthen yours. If you admire our sense of commitment, deepen yours. If you admire our… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
“The essence of its failure was that it could not sustain unity. In its early stages its citizens, both patrician and plebeian,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Jesus offered a single incentive to follow him; it was woven into all he said and did. Here is how I would… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
The things that are said in the show about race and religion are maybe more shocking because its not done now. But… — January Jones Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Seventh Step of The Ladder of Divine Ascent, St. John of Sinai says that we shall not… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Scripture really seems to be getting at something here, something about orienting our lives around becoming lifelong learners of Jesus. It is… — Mike Breen Copy Share Image
I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement.… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one's children right or wrong, that can be even… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place,… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of… — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
“It's one of the great temptations, you see--wanting to prove the strength of your own faith by making others believe what you… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the… — James George Frazer Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Faith is the muscle of the spirit. It is strengthened through study, prayer, and meditation. As exercise builds muscle and our bodies… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image