The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“One other sacrifice of the New Testament believer-priests is the offering up of new converts to God. The apostle Paul saw himself… — Robert L. Saucy Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We aeronauts of the spirit! All those brave birds which fly out into the distance, into the farthest distance – it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“When it comes to speaking about sin, Paul is clear in his message to the Jews that the law cannot justify them,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is,… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
“Spiritual perception must be an individual quest or it has no meaning. We are greatly influenced by our own immediate reality, and… — Michael Newton Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Worldly efforts (laukik purusharth) are all an effect (prarabdha – effect of past life causes). To work in one’s profession is an… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The people who say, “Preach the gospel, and use words if necessary,” seem to forget that the very essence of the gospel… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“In sharp contrast to his medical research, Razi’s ventures into religion earned him nothing but abuse.63 The very names of Razi’s three… — S. Frederick Starr Copy Share Image
If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Your job then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Notice Paul’s advance in the grace of humility. Early in his ministry, he acknowledged: “I am the least of the apostles and… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Absolutism, in both religious and political idealism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to live in autarchy, to make the testimony of faith, pray and fast and go to pilgrimage only, far… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Doubts about faith naturally happen when tragedies shred out faith. But that is what's so special about belief in Jesus and the… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“There is this question of otherness….So just as it is blood alone that binds people to defend one another in the face… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I come across one or other of my fellow Christians ignorant of astronomy, believing what is not so, I calmly look… — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
“I see no reason why church services have to be standard. I've discussed this with the man who used to be a… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God's… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
![“The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything [that] a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for…” quote by Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1ec/daniel-dennett-3895_abandoned_the-kindly-god-who-lovingly-fashioned-ea_2710685.jpg)
