The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Although I never found a church where I felt completely at home again, I made a new home in the world. I… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“The Ancestral Spirit speaks to us from the blood flowing through our veins, for it contains the memory of our lineage. There… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“any given system is as good as the next. First, we call it Christianity, then democracy, and now we call it the… — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“He thought about all the religions of the world, about their shared origins, about the earliest gods of the sun, moon, sea,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Still, as a straight person, you might say, "This just isn't my fight." No, it isn't. Unless you care about the kind… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at… — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“I entered the church, without fear this time, for it was now my house too. I offered prayers to Christ, who is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Don’t exclude others just because they disagree with you on many things. Such strife smells of and breeds disunity. Instead, allow the… — Brian Houston Copy Share Image
“The liberality of the age, or in other words the weakening of the obstinate prejudice, which makes men unable to see what… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and… — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
“Faith is something you have or you don’t, and to pretend you do in the hope of gaining some last-minute dispensation from… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
“The path of spirituality is a path where one has to keep on reducing his wishes for worldly happiness, as one moves… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“At every significant point in the four centuries since English settlers laid the foundations for the nation we know—at every significant point—American… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“It is important that a distinction be made between the assembly as defined by the New Testament and churches as they are… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“ My Creed To live as gently as I can; To be, no matter where, a man; To take what comes of… — Edgar Albert Guest Copy Share Image
When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to… — Gerard Majella Copy Share Image
“Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“A man walks into a coffee shop. As the man talks across the counter, the coffee guy makes his coffee and sets… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
