“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures…For example, assuming the… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Holy spirits, you walk up there in the light, on soft earth. Shining god-like breezes touch upon you gently, as a woman's… — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“Strive to engage in activities that require constant self-development. Nurture and develop the physical body, but also our spiritual nature. We exist… — Janet M. Tavakoli Copy Share Image
The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“It was like a religious conversion for me. In fact, it’s kind of like sex—one of those things that everyone thinks they… — Judith Ryan Hendricks Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Fathers of the Republic, I believe, were far cleverer fellows than they are commonly represented to be, even in the schoolbooks.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received… — Glenn L. Pace Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty… — William James Copy Share Image
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“The spiritual reformer cannot expect to have the majority on his side. He must be prepared to stand alone like Ezekiel and… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“To my thinking, a woman’s religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“FIVE SIGNS OF OIKOS Another pattern we’ve seen is that MCs that really become extended families on mission have several common elements.… — Mike Breen Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“In the Christian tradition, for example, the only model for faith is Jesus of Nazareth. His proclamation, one observes in the New… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“[On Anger] [T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field… — Peter Haggett Copy Share Image
The issue is not going to church; rather, the issue is worshipping and renewing covenants as we attend church. The issue is… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“You can’t get anything worth having for nothing,” Darnay declared, offering his guest a fill of tobacco from his pouch, “and faith… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have, for religion -we… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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