“KANT: The traditional religious foundation for morality may be ontologically stronger, but I say it is not logically or epistemologically stronger. It cannot… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ interpretation of the OT law As the promised Messiah who is in the process of inaugurating a spiritual kingdom, Jesus next… — Crossway Copy Share Image
“That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, about my… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“It is the lessons that we disagree with that force and challenge us to grow and learn for ourselves, and though the… — Ivan D'Amico Copy Share Image
“O holy and blessed dame, the perpetuall comfort of humane kind, who by thy bounty and grace nourishest all the world, and… — Lucius Apuleius Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“are more open to the Christian faith than they were in their original context. Most have been uprooted from their familiar, traditional… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiety for the living… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Zen has been called the "religion before religion," which is to say that anyone can practice, including those committed to another faith.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“[THE DAILY BREATH] Blaise Pascal, the famous mathematician, once said: "To those who wish to see, God gives them sufficient light. To… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
“Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“But even if that were true, the key phrase “begin not hostilities” doesn’t necessarily mean what many Westerners assume or hope it… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Spiritual disciplines more easily introduced into daily activities ▪ School calendar formulated to dates that work best for our family’s needs ▪ … — Alicia Kazsuk Copy Share Image
“Thurman asked, “Are you born again?” Reacher said, “Once was enough for me.” “I’m serious.” “So am I.” “You should think about… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“The trouble with purging the school curriculum of religious knowledge is that ultimate questions cannot be answered without reference to religious beliefs… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Can there be anything more stupendous than the [Hindu] conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In each of the following chapters, dealing in turn with policing and repression, culture and propaganda, religion and education, the economy, society… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“To the mind (Geist), good and evil, above and below, are not skeptical, relative concepts, but terms of a function, values that… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Have patience . . . We are not the masters of our own feelings of attraction or revulsion; these come from places… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Our inner lives must be lent a structure and our best thoughts reinforced to counter the continuous pull of distraction and disintegration.… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“What If God Is a Creep? What if God is a creep who wishes He was taller who didn't get the girl… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“A church that truly understands the implications of the biblical gospel, letting the “word of Christ dwell in [it] richly” (Col 3:16),… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When I was 15, I sat in despair one day in a creaky old bus that was winding its way through central… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I believe that the universe was formed around 15 billion years ago and that humans have evolved from their apelike ancestors over… — Ronald P. Carver Copy Share Image
“Bondage and liberation is another important issue that Kashmir Shaivism has clarified in a unique manner. Most of the other schools of… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“Like This If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say,… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
“HEALING POINTS IN REVIEW • Remind yourself frequently that the healing power is in your subconscious mind. • Know that faith is… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“We often associate science with the values of secularism and tolerance. If so, early modern Europe is the last place you would… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“You live in days when a lingering, Lot-like religion abounds. The stream of profession is far broader than it once was, but… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“So many ruins bear witness to good intentions which went astray, good intentions unenlightened by any glimmer of wisdom. To bring religion… — Charles Le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
“A leading common sense–based reason for exploring other animals’ realities, which is also a scientific one, is the pursuit of truth. Science… — Paul Waldau Copy Share Image