“Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Wherever religion is resorted to, as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull monotonous round of home, those of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If performed in the right spirit, there is no higher worship than the unpurchased service to another soul of whatever faith, belief,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“They must have His grace, the Spirit of Christ, to help their infirmities, or they cannot resist evil. Jesus loves to have… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“As a young person I was taught that becoming a Christian meant that I had arrived. But trusting Christ as Savior is… — Bruce Demarest Copy Share Image
Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between the sterile, absolute, and empty formulae of reductionist, totalitarian science and the earnest, hostile, excessively certain make-believe of religious fundamentalism,… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Underneath your conscious and unconscious beliefs, love continues to flow, willing to extend outward, and express yourself. The ultimate purpose of your… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
“Martin, perceiving some shelves filled with English books, said to the senator, “I fancy that a republican must be highly delighted with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Especially to be avoided is approaching Kant's life in a spirit of hero worship or hagiography -- as though our interest in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I'm an elder in a Presbyterian church. I've taken Scripture seriously. I really do believe, like my more religious colleagues, that religion… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I believe that marriage has a spiritual foundation because only a man and a woman can create life, which is a gift… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must -… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
“For this reason each lower Presence is the image and correspondence ( mithal), the reflection and mirror of the next higher. Thus… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“That’s … a really incredible metaphor, Jean, but I think I could use some help translating it.” “What I’m saying is, we have… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“True faith calls on the name of Jesus for salvation from death, hell, sin, and Satan. Therefore, sound theology has its source… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it… — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
“Drinking the cup that Jesus drank is living a life in and with the spirit of Jesus, which is the spirit of… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
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