I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“When we are caught in notions, rituals, and the outer forms of the practice, not only can we not receive and embody… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Given the imperfections of our society and the apparent downward spiral of spiritual and moral values in recent years, thinking has become… — M Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Everybody's born to do a certain thing and if you're dead jimmy you've found it. And if you're good at something, just… — Mike Scott Copy Share Image
“Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset and the most power force available for the transformation of human suffering – whether some is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“If the veil could be parted and we could see the world of spirit, we would likely discover many among them our… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
“Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“There is no god, and that's the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“There they are. The extreme definiteness with which they stand, now a brilliant white, again yellow, and in some lights red, imposes… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Rather than some boozy lunch with editors and sponsored parties, we cut right to the chase. We have editorial integrity, we don’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This incarnation of the Son of God, this taking upon himself the very nature of man, this uniting himself through the body… — A.A. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Remember the faith you were raised in my child, and love not in word or in tongue, but in deed and in… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
“Paul said that God gave pastors, teachers, and elders to the church so that they could teach the rest of us to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Every religion, Eastern and Western, has the same archetype of benevolent guides in Heaven helping us, whether they are called bodhisattvas, deities,… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear.… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible’s message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“So we do not read the Bible simply to fill our minds, but to change our hearts. We do not read the… — Tim Chester Steve Timmis Copy Share Image
“Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56)… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it is from this… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
“Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write "X-Mas" instead of "Christmas"; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas.… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
“churches and denominations must be in the business of actively helping to create disciples. Disciples, people who are actively being transformed by… — Emily C. Heath Copy Share Image
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters'… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love… — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image