“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Generosity of spirit is worthwhile. I've had many requests over the years to attend things, to sing somewhere. I try not to… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Risk assessment is the new religion, the Big Babies'equivalent of the apotropaic ritual, the haruspices, the chicken entrails and the goat on… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All religions have been created to explain things we know nothing about. For the Greeks, natural phenomena such as lightning could not… — Ryan A Camp Copy Share Image
“It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is… — Naomi janowitz Copy Share Image
“Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“The spiritual efficacy of all encounters is determined by the amount of personal ego that is in play. If two people meet… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“What love and spirit give cannot be extorted. The state has always been made a hell by man's wanting to make it… — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
“But that’s not all. The resurrection is also God’s “Amen” to our “It is finished, for I believe that when he died,… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“God’s world is set up with laws and principles. Spiritual realities are as real as gravity, and if you do not know… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“Their conversations turned to religion, and Pigafetta persuaded the prisoner to convert to Christianity. He was baptized, and the giant, whose original… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“It is estimated that every three minutes somewhere in the world a Christian faces serious violations ranging from severe discrimination to outright… — Majed El Shafie Copy Share Image
“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the… — David Felten Copy Share Image
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“Whenever I felt like that, I would have a chat with my own Fat Mary. She was like the sweet fresh air… — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although… — James Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act… — Jack Schwarz Copy Share Image
To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could… — Andrew M. Davis Copy Share Image
“Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then… — Patsie Smith Copy Share Image
“In American religion, as in ancient Gnosticism, there is almost no sense of God’s difference from us—in other words, his majesty, sovereignty,… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
“The confession of the church touching Jesus Christ can never be a knowledge such that, with it, the church can elevate itself… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the art of learning to listen to our own heart. Meditation is the art of learning to listen to the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. How much am I doing about my anger, attachment, hatred,… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
“The future life is the feeling, the conception of freedom from those limits which here circumscribe the feeling of self, the existence… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
