Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“But here's the biggest head-scratcher of all: Not only are atheists destroying our country, they're completely deluding themselves. There's simply no way… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Our suffering has a purpose-it helps us toward the end of our faith, which is the salvation of our souls. Suffering is… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist.… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“An enormous amount of energy has been expended uselessly in the past, in assaulting positions that are no longer held. For example,… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only… — Basilea Schlink Copy Share Image
Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Christianity is not just a religion; True Christians experience a deep personal relationship with the Creator God of the universe. All other… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith.… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it,… — John Knox Copy Share Image
“When I heard of the shady tactics of the Moonies, my initial indignation was modified by empathy. I remembered only too well… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to… — M. Robert Mulholland Jr Copy Share Image
Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying.… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Christ’s passivity in his resurrection reflects his identification and solidarity with believers in being raised from the dead. For Paul—certainly not in… — Richard B. Jr. Gaffin Copy Share Image
In the larger scheme of things, God has commonly effected this purifying by revival or judgement. Strange though it may seem, there… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“If the devil be actually among us, then for the sake of much which has seemed crass in orthodox religion, thus completely… — Arthur Edward Waite Copy Share Image
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“ Who Needs A Holiday? Homecoming: We tailgate all football season--it’s almost a religion--but nothing compares to homecoming. Darling, you better watch… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness… — Anna White Copy Share Image
![“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like…” quote by C.J. Sansom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b0e/c-j-sansom-22985_apocalypse_many-tudor-era-religious-radicals-believ_2017683.jpg)
![“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what Christianity means, abandoning the nuances of traditional theology in favor of religions that stroke their egos and indulge or even celebrate their worst impulses…” quote by Ross Douthat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd7/ross-douthat-2949_american-life_m-ost-americans-are-still-drawing-some-w_743522.jpg)
![“Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In a heaven state there is no religion, meaning that you're seeing the whole thing ... I mean, to worship something means that it's something beyond you, right? In other words…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d02/paul-laffoley-7077_heaven_now-we-know-this-is-what-h-p-lovecraft-w_2029774.jpg)
