Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky. Our sacred book is not an indexed answer book… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Contending with a political movement that sees demons where others see citizens--a movement that characterizes religious, political and sexual diversity as demonic… — Frederick Clarkson Copy Share Image
What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To return to the linguistic analogy, those who are fluent in Scripture are both able and desirous to preach on every nook… — Brent A. Strawn Copy Share Image
Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What sometimes appears to be a dramatic, traumatic obstacle is really a call for spiritual advancement…to grow into our spiritual garment. A… — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
“We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“That's because the guitar is speaking to you, bringing your senses alive. Music is an age-old language. It speaks to everyone, young… — Josephine Cox Copy Share Image
“I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with poor dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Egocentrism is the problem, then, not Egos. Egocentric people are agents for themselves only (and perhaps also for their immediate families), without… — Bill Plotkin Copy Share Image
“[Jacob] Hamblin arranged to make a trip across the Colorado River in search of a child who might be missing. The motive… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
“The danger of delusion was made worse, by the love of delusion. What's best for me and what is worst for me,… — Mark Booth Copy Share Image
“15 If you love Me, keep My Commandments (His Commandments can be kept only in one way; the Believer must ever make Christ… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
“In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people… — Eve Copy Share Image
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“The reason it’s unlikely the Supreme Court would uphold a religious exemption for vaccinations or blood transfusions is not something intrinsic to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the… — William James Copy Share Image
On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“For another thing, people's notions of the really big scriptural Subject can be quite beside the point. Suppose, by way of illustration,… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong… — Eca De Queiroz Copy Share Image
Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
![“[Jacob] Hamblin arranged to make a trip across the Colorado River in search of a child who might be missing. The motive behind this is clear… [I]n letters and in recorded speeches he had expressed an eagerness to labor among “the nobler branches of the race.” He had heard that the Hopis across the…” quote by Juanita Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8d/juanita-brooks-33595_children_jacob-hamblin-arranged-to-make-a-trip-ac_2363707.jpg)
