If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I meet people who use the term "plant spirit" as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo,… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
“At family gatherings in the United States, two off-limit subjects are almost always put together in the same phrase: no religion or… — Bryanna Plog Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . .… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“When I look back on my life I come to one simple conclusion: there exists an intelligent, loving Presence in the Cosmos… — Dylan Morrison Copy Share Image
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
One of the things I always tell people when they're going to get married is, in order to have a lasting relationship,… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
“Christ is our Friend; He is also the Righteous King. God is our Father; He is also the Sovereign Lord. Christianity can… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again,… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
When you look at the decline of church attendance in America, or when you look at the decline of millennials that are… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
“individuals exist to serve the purposes of the secular state and an imperial president. The implied warning to Christians is: Obey or… — Floyd G Brown Copy Share Image
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“as if any one but a fool imagined that he could compress a thing like art or religion or science into an… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life - more… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
“We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the… — Basil Pennington Copy Share Image
“There is a frontier-line in human closeness That love and passion cannot violate-- Though in silence mouth to mouth be soldered And… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is a stressful event for your body, mind and spirit. But when you put yourself through that willingly, consciously… — Milind Soman Copy Share Image
People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Rather than being devoted to and dependent on the teaching of the apostles, these groups held that secretly revealed knowledge about Jesus… — Andreas J. Kostenberger Copy Share Image
The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I have reported enough about Islam and terrorism to recognize that a lot of what is at stake is not strictly religion,… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As with Isaiah’s vision in the Temple, and many other scenes both biblical and modern, Peter’s change from fisherman to shepherd comes… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and looked up and saw jackpines… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Crossing the threshold of faith means that we keep our eyes filled with wonder and do not let our hearts grow accustomed… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It is only fair to add that you should be undecided about spiritual causes too. By this I mean that you can’t… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Baptism has for its general effect the regeneration of the soul, 1 and hence belongs to the " Sacraments of the dead."… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
