Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other,… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“These religious types were the fans that Jesus seems to have the most trouble with. Fans who will walk into a restaurant… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word. Away from me, you evildoers, that I… — Bible Copy Share Image
I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
... the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His Coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart, she… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
“...a man, who like Satan, momentarily thought himself the equal of God and who, with all the humility of a Christian, came… — Alexadre Dumas Copy Share Image
I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
Being a Christian that sins does NOT make you a hypocrite, it makes you a sinner that knows God forgives time after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God… — John Owen Copy Share Image
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all… — George Gillespie Copy Share Image
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Being from a family in church and being a Christian myself, I pray daily. — Deborah Joy Winans Copy Share Image
I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians,… — Jill Briscoe Copy Share Image
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
