“The Roman church’s unmistakable claim is that there is only one church and only one faith and that Christendom needs a visible… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In cities we will also meet a lot of people who hold to other religions or to no religion who are wiser,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“I learned I didn't matter from the very same place that lifted me up, the place I'd found my center and voice:… — Patrisse Khan-Cullors Copy Share Image
“With respect to what are called denominations of religion, if every one is left to judge of its own religion, there is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is something that assaults God even more directly. It is the subtle sense that grows in us, usually unconsciously, that the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Count it all joy, my brothers,when you meet trials of various kinds,for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a… — E. M. Bounds Copy Share Image
“Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friendship with God is possible. Silence manifests… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church… — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
“Whereas the will is made of titanium and steel, the human spirit is a million times more delicate. It reflects the self-concept… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
“Faith is not something you have to work up. Faith is not something achieved by psychological striving, or by logical reasoning. Faith… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
“Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“I have been to many religious services over the years. Each one I go to only reinforces my general impression that religions… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
I do believe my personal spirituality, which spirituality itself I don't really equate to anything more than my personal connection with nature… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
“There's a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.… — Mesnevi Copy Share Image
“Tertullian presents the Christian assemblies in terms that non-Christian readers would recognize; he attempts to establish common ground. But Tertullian is also… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The light-minded and coarse of soul enjoy nothing spiritually. Even pious souls that lack recollection will never experience spiritual joys. Frivolity of… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is the constant truthfulness, the… — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
“16. The Beatitude of Zen. We are far from denying, as already shown in the foregoing chapters, the existence of troubles, pains,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned.… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“Here’s why the life of Muhammad [and Jesus] matters: Contrary to what many secularists would have us believe, religions are not entirely… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Perhaps human self hood in it's collective form is unable to imagine any higher value than the common value of it's devotion.… — Reinhold Neibuhr Copy Share Image
“In true, Taoist parlance, 'immortality' refers to a spiritual state, not a condition of physical permanence. In his books on the teachings… — Daniel Reid Copy Share Image
For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood,… — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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