“You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“My course is a survey of how readings of the same constant text have varied over the centuries, from the formation of… — Peter J. Gomes Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding.… — Dean M. Davies Copy Share Image
Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
“It is not that someday Jesus will do this, that, and the other thing, and then the Kingdom will come. It is… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the… — Steven James Copy Share Image
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The first task of discernment, then, is not a closing off but an opening up, what we might call responsive discernment. If… — Steven R. Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Beginning with the Psalms and continuing with Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews, Luther dug into Scripture, and it was these years of study,… — Michelle DeRusha Copy Share Image
Only he shall visit the mosques of Allah who believes in Allah and the latter day, and keeps up prayer and pays… — Quran Copy Share Image
“The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined; more strict than any of which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We have talked about the manner and mode of preaching, but contextualization also has much to do with the content. A sermon… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“This is the perfect time to discuss the common deception that, “Everything God does must be found in Scripture.” I understand the… — Brian Guerin Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
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