I never try to be religious. I never try to be any type of religious cat. Spiritual, yes, but religion, when you… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
How can our industry better represent the reality of our larger community and provide our next generation a proper example of what… — Adwoa Aboah Copy Share Image
“Like the good spirit, ready to convict us, knowing is looking right at us, waiting for our inner space to surrender ourselves… — Tabitha Biel Luak Copy Share Image
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Music and dancing employed in sense gratification are to be accepted as demoniac, but the same music and dancing, when employed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“The Nelazan believed that there was beauty in darkness, and that the daylight was more profane. They saw the stars as the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“(Almost) every religion is waiting for someone to come save us. Jesus is going to come save the Christians, Messiah is going… — Alathea Daniels Copy Share Image
For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“A Jew ain't only a religion, and it ain't a race. It isn't an ethnicity, and you aren't disqualified if you're good… — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about the religious people who run Iran is that one of their problems with Ahmadinejad, who they thought would… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The highest view of the Scriptures is not the one that seeks to make an idol of the Bible (biblicism), but the… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
“We may be tempted to think of Christianity primarily as 'I must...,' but that is not the starting place. You cannot make… — John Snyder Copy Share Image
Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s my tattoos talking, but this is my favorite missional mandate. Because the perception of Christians as self-righteous segregationists is so… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We need to take on sin patterns and defeat them by the power of the Spirit. We need to make ambitious resolutions… — Dr. Andrew M. Davis Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think what a lot of people forget is that a lot of the music in the '60s and the '70s was… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“The world's Redeemer was treated as we deserve to be treated, in order that we might be treated as he deserved to… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
“That's the spirit, kid," said the voice of the grown man. "Come on, Snow Scouts, let's all say the Snow Scout Alphabet… — Lemony snicket File under 13 suspicious incidents Copy Share Image