“Don’t walk away at the first sign of a contradiction or a problem. Sometimes scientific study needs to play catch-up to the… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub. — H. Richard Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Because the brain does not possess robust ‘fault detectors’, the brain will just as easily encode irrational thoughts and beliefs just as… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which… — The Buddha Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“We can move to legalize same-gender civil marriage without harming any religious institution or dictating any change to the beliefs and practices… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Just as Jesus is our primary model for faith, obedience, prayer, and good works, Jesus the Evangelist should be our model for… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
“nobody really knows what the job market, the family or the ecology will look like in 2050, or which religions, economic systems… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever… — Larry David Copy Share Image
The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Thanks be to God, Who gives us suffering as sacred remedy for all our sins, that best and purest essence which prepares… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“What I know of spirit is astir in the world. The god I have always expected to appear at the woods' edge,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
