“Europeans had highly developed regional and national cultures and societies before they bolted on Protestantism. America, on the other hand, was half-created… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“I own hundreds of self-help and spiritual books and lately I’m only drawn to a few of them. I am still awakening… — Eleyne-Mari Sharp Copy Share Image
“All of us have had this experience. At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“After almost 70 years of being paralysed into silence by the Zionist venom — the accusation of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial —… — William Hanna Copy Share Image
“What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times… — Ashley Mae Hoiland Copy Share Image
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“If it isn't a choice,then it means you must be born a certain way,either gay or straight. If you are born that… — Eileen Cook Copy Share Image
In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
“We have to ask, Why is there no other first-century Jew who has millions of followers today? Why isn’t there a John… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“What is the use of it all, if we don't recognize that the purpose of our book distribution is to encourage as… — Aindra Das Copy Share Image
There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“Too many believers live far beneath their potential! God has empowered His children with His very own spiritual DNA. He destined them… — Tim Sheets Copy Share Image
We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of a stoic life, to survive strictly on your obsessions. It’s also kind of religious, sometimes. You could say that… — Roland Kelts Copy Share Image
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I know that Arnold Toynby, the great historian, said he had always hoped the religions of the world would evolve until they… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When I talk about people wrapping themselves in the flag and hiding behind Jesus - that's an anti-intellectual thing to do in… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair"… And has it really… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Faith...your hope in the unseen You can't touch it You can't see it You can't smell it You can't hear it You… — Maisie A. Smikle Copy Share Image
“Your greatest growth in faith will be in moments where all hope seems gone. That’s where faith is born and faith births… — Cherie Hill Copy Share Image
“Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God. When we reject… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The same subversion of power by truth is evident in the way in which Luke begins his account of Jesus of Nazareth.… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Quality is the continuing stimulus which causes us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“ [How "magical charms" work for healing:] [It is Divine Love that heals and cures. But many people have difficulty accessing the… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image