If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace…Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God…Dropping… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Religion--invaluable in America's founding, forming and flowering--deserves a place in the schools. Indeed, it had that place for almost 200 years. A… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who… — Origen Copy Share Image
“The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different.… — R.C. Sproul Jr Copy Share Image
Inside of all of us we have these patterns where we eventually become at least ethnocentric. We care about our group, our… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Branding adds spirit and a soul to what would otherwise be a robotic, automated, generic price-value proposition. If branding is ultimately about… — David A. Aaker Copy Share Image
“It is one thing for a minister to be an advocate and supporter of missions: it is another and very different thing… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with poor dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Egocentrism is the problem, then, not Egos. Egocentric people are agents for themselves only (and perhaps also for their immediate families), without… — Bill Plotkin Copy Share Image
We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“That's because the guitar is speaking to you, bringing your senses alive. Music is an age-old language. It speaks to everyone, young… — Josephine Cox Copy Share Image
“We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What sometimes appears to be a dramatic, traumatic obstacle is really a call for spiritual advancement…to grow into our spiritual garment. A… — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky. Our sacred book is not an indexed answer book… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To return to the linguistic analogy, those who are fluent in Scripture are both able and desirous to preach on every nook… — Brent A. Strawn Copy Share Image
What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“Contending with a political movement that sees demons where others see citizens--a movement that characterizes religious, political and sexual diversity as demonic… — Frederick Clarkson Copy Share Image
God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the… — William James Copy Share Image
On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“For another thing, people's notions of the really big scriptural Subject can be quite beside the point. Suppose, by way of illustration,… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
