“And he can convert millions of people to his religion because it spreads like a fucking virus—people have no resistance to it… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq… — Georgie Anne Geyer Copy Share Image
“It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
“The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneously in the present moment of physical reality,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
“One of the most important elements of spiritual progress is a willingness and ability to let go of the past, and this… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“1. The buck stops here. I am responsible for my past and my future. 2. I will seek wisdom. I will be… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The sage has no mind of his own. He is aware of the needs of others. I am good to people who… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“In this new year, may you have a deep understanding of your true value and worth, an absolute faith in your unlimited… — Janet Rebhan Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics.… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
“Would you rather live in a world without technology…or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Everything we learn—economics, philosophy, biology, mathematics—has to be understood in light of the overarching reality of the character of God. That is… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If there is a person of the highest grade of understanding, he may first of all learn the most profound, next the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“One cannot keep on evangelizing the world without interfering with the world's culture. It devolves upon God's people, therefore, to contend for… — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
“But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can? I suspect that neither the Cambridge nor… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
