Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them,… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
“Tony Blair, who held the presidency of the G8 in 2005, spent the months leading up to that year’s summit trying to… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever may be really “out there” cannot… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“To feel oneself so tiny, so fragile, so inherently losable, was at first spiritually crushing. But, by the same token, this realisation… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“to sin means to miss the mark, as an archer who misses the target, so to sin means to miss the point… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first articulate explorer and to an extent even theorist of intimacy was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, characteristically enough, is the only great… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
