The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
Ours is a war not against a religion, not against the Muslim faith. But ours is a war against individuals who absolutely… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the… — Keri Wyatt Kent Copy Share Image
“Once we know how observant a person is in terms of church attendance, nothing that we can discover about the content of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Magic must have meaning to hold power. You must believe in your magic or it is useless. Focus is the key. Focus… — Cynthia Stacey Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen… — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass. This, then,… — Gene R. Cook Copy Share Image
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
“To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the past Terra had been racked by wars of religion, one fanatically held opinion opposed to another. There was no righteousness… — Andre Norton Copy Share Image
“Proclaiming resurrection turns the world upside down (cf. Acts 17:1-9) and holds out to the poor and lowly the hope of being… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Consequently, when Muslims today say they revere Jesus and even that they recognize Christianity as a legitimate faith, they are being disingenuous.… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
“THE GOSPEL CHANGES EVERYTHING The gospel is not just the ABCs but the A to Z of the Christian life. It is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“But how is one to tell whether it be in truth the spirit of God that is speaking in a man?' You… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“God recognizes and respects our independent will and the choices all of us make. He does not force us to seek His… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. It's the ability… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“So what actually goes on with all this religion business? Does it really matter whether you’re a Gnostic, a Christian, a Muslim,… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Dad was on the porch, pacing back and forth in that uneven stride he had on account of having a gimp leg.… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“I find it disturbing that religious folk are always suggesting or even demanding we be respectful of religion. Even if we disagree,… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Let’s not dwell on the charge that we are all members of a corrupt and “fallen” species by birth. Rather, we should… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
