It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth. — John Tavener Copy Share Image
Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Faith is a choice; anyone who says otherwise is trying to convert you.” — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Not just because his kiss froze my spirit in place, made me wish I was a statue so I never had to… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has… — John Piper Copy Share Image