“...There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them,… — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Copy Share Image
“An important contributory factor to the loss of mental morale in the church has been a misguided conception of Christian charity. It… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely.… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
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
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
“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
“The name which I have selected will prepare the reader to expect no new doctrines in this volume. It is simple, unadulterated,… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“But Scotty has helped me to realize that once God rescues sinners, his plan is not to steer them beyond the gospel… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“We can’t be lone rangers. You need to be fed, Hannah—not just in the sacred journey group or in your private devotions.… — Sharon Garlough Brown 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Loving without expectation in return is the difficult thing and it needs a lots ot patience and Devotion to Learn ……i'm dying… — Anuja Copy Share Image
Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the sin of mankind, including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists,… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
My faith was undermined by the same sort of things that make people skeptics of religion in general. Part of it was,… — David Berman Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit.… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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