The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
“Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on… — Dawn M Harvey Copy Share Image
“Commonly, that is to say metaphysically, either faith takes the place of reason when reason can no longer establish plainly what faith… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We see what we need to see,but we must remain open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.Progression of the… — Sheri Meshal Copy Share Image
Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism -… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“When he was twenty-three years old, he (George Fox) saw the inner light in a vision. For him it symbolized the spirit… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“The “with God” life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Modern spiritual consciousness is predicated upon the fact that God is gone, and spiritual experience, for many of us, amounts mostly to… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Heed the words of Gautama Buddha, spoken 2,600 years ago: “Do not believe in what you have heard; do not believe in… — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
“Suffering is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of humanity. Even though none of us really ever welcomes it...having had enough of… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Love for others and respect for their rights and their human dignity, irrespective of who or what they are, no matter what… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
“If Shirley were not an indolent, a reckless, an ignorant being, she would take a pen at such moments, or at least… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“Well'm, faith ain't no magic wand or money-back gar'ntee, either one. Hit's jest a way a'livin'. Hit means you don't worry th'ew… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
“What we think of as the twenty-seven books of “the” New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“The way a people (whether an ethnic group, a nation, or a religious community) defines itself has enormous significance. That definition indicates… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Part of being a Christian is recognizing that sin deceives us, and we need other believers to help us see the things… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
“Sufis like to say: “This is not a religion; it is religion,” or “Sufism is the essence of all religions,” which provides… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Too much reason limits man to the physical world and blinds his imagination to the greater things that may be. But too… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“...the white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He… — R.S. Belcher Copy Share Image
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