“We learned a lot about cults in seminary,” he said, “but to be honest, I haven’t given it much thought since it… — Glenda C. Manus Copy Share Image
“I am no philosopher, but I know this. Your religions cause wars and prevent marriages. There will be no peace on earth… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Our universe grants every soul a twin- a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
“Fruits of the Spirit GOODNESS and KINDNESS live in the hearts of those who have suffered greatly, as the wounded tend to… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
Life is not about making money. It is about enhancing the quality of life for every single being so that they go… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Today the name of Jesus Christ is often mocked, despised, and even hated. But one day Jesus will get all the honor… — Dianne Neal Matthews Copy Share Image
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
“to either release you from it or be with you in it. God gives us everything we need, but it is up… — Bob Saffrin Copy Share Image
“Looking at ourselves through the eyes of those living in places where human tragedy is still embedded in complex religious and cultural… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All religions have been created to explain things we know nothing about. For the Greeks, natural phenomena such as lightning could not… — Ryan A Camp Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“The spiritual efficacy of all encounters is determined by the amount of personal ego that is in play. If two people meet… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is… — Naomi janowitz Copy Share Image
“What love and spirit give cannot be extorted. The state has always been made a hell by man's wanting to make it… — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
“But that’s not all. The resurrection is also God’s “Amen” to our “It is finished, for I believe that when he died,… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“Risk assessment is the new religion, the Big Babies'equivalent of the apotropaic ritual, the haruspices, the chicken entrails and the goat on… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Generosity of spirit is worthwhile. I've had many requests over the years to attend things, to sing somewhere. I try not to… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act… — Jack Schwarz Copy Share Image
