“...all religions seek to approach the reality of God through symbols, and these symbols point to the mystery of human life, pushing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What we can say with some certainty is that American young people have enormous trouble putting faith into words. It was unclear… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image
We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure… — Melanie Randolph Miller Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
“Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“GRATITUDE Opening the back door to make my way towards the swinging bench I walk on the stone path beneath the dripping… — Luccini Shurod Copy Share Image
“All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
“However high, wide, long, or deep your faith may grow through the years, always leave an ellipsis at every point of your… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I certainly do attempt to live according to spiritual principles. That's always the foundation of each and every day. I have experienced… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“Because of the divorce from the historic Church, Evangelicalism has sought for a new way to satisfy the need for materiality. This… — Andrew Stephen Damick Copy Share Image
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“THE PILGRIMS HAD BEEN DRIVEN by fiercely held spiritual beliefs. They had sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Religious ritual invariably offers a sacrificial display of commitment to supernatural agents that is materially costly and emotionally convincing. Such ritual conveys… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
“The best approach to religious codes that have become rigid and absolute is to acknowledge their arbitrariness and use them, if we… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
![“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure for even six months "must depend on the Form of Government which shall be presented by the Convention" and whether it could "strike out that happy Mean which secures…” quote by Melanie Randolph Miller](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c5e/melanie-randolph-miller-190458_divine-providence_t-he-great-decided-effective-majority-is_1307754.jpg)
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