“We seem especially susceptible to this pitting of spirituality against theology in American evangelical contexts. Perhaps we can chalk this up to… — Stephen J. Nichols Copy Share Image
“Religion is evolving to survive but is losing the battle in many regions, largely because of the Internet. Sexual information is far… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the… — Steve Lawson Copy Share Image
Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously.… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
In truth, I’m not my body, my race, religion, or other beliefs, and neither is anyone else. The real self is infinite… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life.… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many churches have de-emphasized preaching and worship in favor of entertainment, apparently believing they must lure converts by appealing to fleshly interests.… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He has taken the cleanup entirely into his own hands. He has just… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm… — William Cameron Townsend Copy Share Image
“Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Compton Gage, a Spiritual breed faction who seeks to restore early days of glory through Spiritual Warfare, a holy war directed against… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
The whole point is I'm trying to get you to see-to get you out of this malaise of thinking that Jesus and… — Frederick K. C. Price Copy Share Image
“I played my role as the good Christian girl and spared everyone the drama of an argument. But that decision to remain… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to… — John Edwards Copy Share Image
“I have observed a number of church people through the years who were grounded in biblical truth, faithful in church attendance, and… — Judson Edwards Copy Share Image
“I have, however, to live in an age of Faith — the sort of thing I used to hear praised and recommended… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally… — John Piper Copy Share Image
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
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![“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?)…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/74c/oliver-d-crisp-12863_atonement_sometimes-we-can-lose-the-wood-for-the-t_1996596.jpg)
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