“I cannot picture what the life of the spirit would have been without him. He found me when my mind and soul… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I… — Fidelis of Sigmaringen Copy Share Image
Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men… — Brom Copy Share Image
“The greatest lesson Zen can give those who seek spirituality is simply to accept that we are part of all that is… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“What if a whole goddamned building was to just up and sink? What about two or three buildings? What about a whole… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint… — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
“So the official story of the massacre was written. While the visiting [Mormon] authorities might reprove the leaders, while they might administer… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
“Jesus did not come to start a religion. He came to blow religion off the map. Jesus did not come to tinker… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, the book of job is asking this great question: Is there a living God beyond what we can… — Fleming Rutledge Copy Share Image
“The Bible’s a fine, holy piece of literature and holds a lot of truth. It’s a thing of beauty and wisdom. Problem… — Nancy M. Griffis Copy Share Image
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Christians – whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever – have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental… — Dan Ronco Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The path of the human happiness consists of the supreme attributes of Love, which are Holiness, Faith and Religion. It requires a… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Because the nature of all our God talk is inherently metaphoric and rhetorical, preaching will be a form of poetic rhetorical theology276… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Other than the substantial physiological impact of prayer/meditation, there is another much simpler mind-body intervention that helps all religious and spiritual individuals… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any… — Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter.… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“any suggestion that God has returned to his Old Testament theocratic mode of operation—as in raising up America as a uniquely favored… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural… — Robert B. Seidensticker Copy Share Image
Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Most people measure themselves against someone or something and then fight their inner doubts to believe they, too, have what it takes… — Stephan Bauman Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“The benefits of a philosophy of neo-religious pessimism are nowhere more apparent than in relation to marriage, one of modern society’s most… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image