But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people… — Eve Copy Share Image
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“The danger of delusion was made worse, by the love of delusion. What's best for me and what is worst for me,… — Mark Booth Copy Share Image
“15 If you love Me, keep My Commandments (His Commandments can be kept only in one way; the Believer must ever make Christ… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
“[Jacob] Hamblin arranged to make a trip across the Colorado River in search of a child who might be missing. The motive… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
“At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The reason it’s unlikely the Supreme Court would uphold a religious exemption for vaccinations or blood transfusions is not something intrinsic to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Science, not religion, became the driving force for human development and world discovery and exploitation. It is the unwise use of science,… — Alan Sanderson Copy Share Image
“There are some great mysteries here and I believe that each one of us is better placed to understand them than any… — John Mellor Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The religious man renounces the joys of this world, but only that he may win in return the joys of heaven; …… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“We are like those oysters in many ways...Irritants, or foreign objects, infiltrate our lives in the form of bad choices, jealousy, fear,… — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Even harsh karma, when faced in wisdom, can be the greatest catalyst for spiritual unfoldment. Performing daily sādhana, keeping good company, pilgrimaging to holy… — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
“For the commentator to stay as closely as possible to home, that is, to the text of the Gospel itself, there is… — Herman Ridderbos Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion… The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space… — David Irving Copy Share Image
“I have no respect to merchants and preachers; as far as I’m concerned, their only talent is coming up with the right… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image