Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
I think there is always new people that have never heard the gospel before that need to have it because the gospel… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
“You're right [Joshua], I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed to know was already there.… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Religion and race belong together. German man can only assimilate religious faith and religious thought with a German mind and in a… — Hans Schemm Copy Share Image
And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“One example of an uniquely Sethian approach towards initiation is for the initiate to regard his or her own life with the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“I am fully aware that the things I do are construed as absolute craziness. But in actuality, we are just having fun… — John Crowder Copy Share Image
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
“The Nobodies Who are not, but could be. Who don't speak languages, but dialects. Who don't have religions, but superstitions. Who don't… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does.… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
“The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Today, four to six million Canadians—about one-fifth of the population—claim a Tory ancestor. Many Canadians believe that their nation’s traditional devotion to… — Thomas B. Allen Copy Share Image
“Whatever response we draw, we’ve got to know this: evangelism is not easy. It’s not supposed to be. It’s challenging to tell… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“They [the Mormons] are a set of horse thieves, liars, and counterfeiters. They'll swear a false oath on any occasion to save… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and said, 'This is better than we thought! The universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Let us put it the other way, the Lutheran or Protestant church versus the Catholic. The Catholic is the girl that you… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“The argument was this: a civilization shackled to the strictures of excessive control on its populace, from choice of religion through to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Each one of us is longing only for health and happiness, in search of a way of living in the world that… — Woodson Merrell Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Whenever you're on television, there's a responsibility to look timeless. I worked with the masters of film, fashion and beauty. I took… — Diahann Carroll Copy Share Image