“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
“According to Catholic teaching the remote matter of Baptism is natural water; its proximate matter is the act of external washing; while… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
When a senior religious scholar whom the Almighty has used to change the lives of many people across the globe passes away,… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
“These words reveal that those who watched and listened to Jesus were fascinated time and again by His incredible miracles and the… — Timothy J. Stoner Copy Share Image
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“Qualitative and quantitative research with adults and children reporting ritual abuse has found that it occurs alongside other forms of organised abuse,… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams;… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“However, because ambition is easily disguised in Christian circles and couched in spiritual language (the need to fulfill the Great Commission and… — Gary L. McIntosh Copy Share Image
“The spirit there was very decentralized. The individual was incredibly empowered. It was all based on there being no central authority that… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
“any Christian man who wants to serve the Lord, in any role and at any level, must begin by devoting himself to… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Christ is ubiquitous in this subculture, but more as an adjective (Christian) than as a proper name. While we swim in a… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“I would not give the ashes of a rye straw for any religion that was not worth living for and that was… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“One who does not believe in God will not believe in God’s people. He who believes in God’s people will see His… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Faith acquires what the Law requires; nay, the Law requires, in order that faith may acquire what is thus required; nay, more,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature. That is the issue… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common understanding of Satan's origins,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Other possible approaches demand more respect. For one thing, we must be careful in describing a religion as extinct, either entirely, or… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Rather than encouraging people to believe in a literal Goddess, she encourages people to view Her as a metaphor or a work… — Barbara Walker Copy Share Image
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a… — Salvatore J. Cordileone Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven will make films... all legends, all mythologies and all myths, all founders of religion, and the very religions... await… — Abel Gance Copy Share Image
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but… — Robert Ellsberg Copy Share Image
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“Belief is unprovable, but it is a stepping-stone to truth. Faith is unshakable. It is neither belief nor truth but lights the… — Ken Dickson Copy Share Image
Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and… — Laura San Giacomo Copy Share Image
“I know well enough that one of those leaders of what they call the Social Revolution said that religion is the opium… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
“The poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree;… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
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