I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative.… — Francis George Copy Share Image
“The best churches don’t have stained glass windows or statues of dead saints or even ceilings and walls. You don’t need a… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
“When radical acceptance blossoms in our relationships, it becomes a kind of spiritual re-parenting that enables us to trust the goodness and… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing.… — Siri Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I have spent much of my life around death. I have sat with people as they died. I have listened to others… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
At the beginning of each chapter, a heading tells us about what is happening in the chapter. We can ask, "What was… — Allan F. Packer Copy Share Image
“If a person has faith, Bhāradvāja, he preserves truth when he says: 'My faith is thus'; but he does not yet come… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Mia shrugged. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Youth. I don't seek it through another because I have it within; it's a state of mind, a spirit that is free,… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“It was during my study in Israel that I came to the realization that most of what I had learned in my… — Roy B. Blizzard Copy Share Image
“The greatest threat to Christ-centered witness even in churches that formally affirm sound teaching is what British evangelical David Gibson calls ‘the… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
We minister the Word of God. The proclamation of the Gospel comes after individuals have opened their hearts to God and turned… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per… — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben Copy Share Image
There has never been a moment when faith hasn't been an important part of my life. There have been moments when I've… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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