Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. -2 Timothy 1:7 — Bible Copy Share Image
I appreciate how central religion is in the lives other people, but it has never resonated with me. I imagine this is… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“We are going to make mistakes no matter what, so it's better to be strong in faith despite our mistakes than weak… — alisa hope wagner Copy Share Image
People dont miss church because they live far from the building. People miss church because they live to far from God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“In the seventeenth century there occurred the spiritual possession by divers demons of the nuns belonging to the Ursuline convent at Aix-en-Provence.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“you see it.” Gurdjieff, a great spiritual teacher who taught in Europe and America in the early decades of the twentieth century,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls.… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of… — Andrew Ashdown Copy Share Image
For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long..… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Here the four elements of solidity, fluidity, heat and motion have no place; the notions of length and breadth, the subtle and… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you in all honesty that there is no Deity or Messiah, no Jesus or Muhammad, no angel or… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
“First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up… — Lola Montez Copy Share Image
“Unlike Christianity, the laws and beliefs in Islam and Judaism are derived through a process of reasoning and scholarship; there are no… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
God didnt empower you with the Holy Spirit to empower yourself. He empowered you with the Holy Spirit to serve Him! — Lisa Copy Share Image
I asked Jesus, How much do you love me? and jesus said, this much. then he stretched out his arms &died for… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
John said the works of Jesus would fill the planet if they were all recorded. Thats the Holy Spirit unquenched for three… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Though the heroes and their fates are inventions, yet the spirit in which they are composed is true and natural.” — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Faith is what I die for, dogma is what I kill for,’ as the saying has it; and the trouble is that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Modern biblical scholars tell us that about 90 percent of the New Testament of the King James Version was ultimately based on… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that reason is morally worse than murder or… — William Blum Copy Share Image
They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
