Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make… — Tom Shields Copy Share Image
“I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Thomas Cranmer in his ‘Homily of Salvation’ explained that three things had to go together in our justification: on God’s part ‘his… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is… — Neil Postman, The End of Education Copy Share Image
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a… — Osho Copy Share Image
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If confusion and hopelessness weigh on your mind, choose to ‘awake and arouse your faculties’ (Alma 32:27, Book of Mormon). Humbly approaching… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Letting go is a central theme in spiritual practice, as we see the preciousness and brevity of life. When letting go is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Those who say that they know what kind of art they like, or what kind of god, or what kind of moral… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“There are good theological reasons to reject making authorial intention the goal of the interpretation of Scripture. First, we must recognize that… — Dale B. Martin Copy Share Image
“THE GREAT NEED of our world, our nation, and our churches is people who know how to prevail in prayer. Moments of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will… — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“There are two common and complementary mistakes, which have been made over and over again concerning spirits by people in the Western… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
“We can find different reasons for which we human beings are here. Nonetheless, one thing is clear: besides clothing, eating, or health… — Isaias Doleo Ochoa Copy Share Image
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is… — William James Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We must invite the cross to do its deadly work within us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment.… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“As we already said, authors receive their ideas from somewhere; and in the case of holy scriptures, that somewhere is the mind… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“The spirit body merges with the soul to facilitate At-One-ment with God. As the spirit body is innately connected to the material… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The present benefit of spiritual discipline is a fulfilled, God-blessed, fruitful, and useful life. If you get involved in spiritual gymnastics, the… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it;… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states;… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image