I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet… — DJ Ashba Copy Share Image
“MOHAMMED’S BIOGRAPHER He was an evangelical pastor, but not for long. Religious orthodoxy was not for him. An open-minded man, a passionate… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Israel, there is no civil marriage. All elements of religious life - from the kosher certification of food to conversion to… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
Soccer, more often than not, helps to unite the world. What this Muslim ban is doing is dividing it: separating 'Us' and… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it,… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Wake up, folks, wake up! As intimidated as you are by the fear of going against the stream and looking racist (a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“In the seventeenth century there occurred the spiritual possession by divers demons of the nuns belonging to the Ursuline convent at Aix-en-Provence.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long..… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of… — Andrew Ashdown Copy Share Image
Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls.… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“you see it.” Gurdjieff, a great spiritual teacher who taught in Europe and America in the early decades of the twentieth century,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“By these Christ was typified, and acknowledged, and brought into the world; for He was prefigured in Joseph: then from Levi and… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You… — Irina Tweedie Copy Share Image
“Scripture is infallible; other teachers... are liable to lead into error. To place above Scripture and prefer to it, human traditions, doctrines,… — E.H. Broadbent- The Pilgrim Church Copy Share Image
I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is no room for rosy eyed acceptance of the cultural decay around us. Highly suspect will be any Christian literary and… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
“You and I want to be people to whom God can entrust a spiritually powerful voice. Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“This participation is important, because Jesus and the prophets lived with an awareness that God has been looking for partners since the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image