I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
It was funny that rank-and-file evangelicals were ahead of all the leadership. They saw for decades conservative Republicans had made promises to… — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
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There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image
“One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and… — Alexandra York Copy Share Image
A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another.… — James Fadiman Copy Share Image
If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“[On married love] This love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“How you respond to what is happening in your life can make a difference. Your conduct in the confusion, your resolve while… — Dr. Glen A. Staples Copy Share Image
“...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Baptism is one of those more effective rites that come in with the new covenant. The fact that baptism takes the place… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
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The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future- certianly none for the Germans. Facism, if… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The encrusted religious structure is not changed by its institutional dependents--they are part of the crust. It is changed by one who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No one sets out to become an apostate, it's never the result of one abrupt, drastic turn away from the Lord. Instead,… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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