“Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to your goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance;… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There seems, however, to be a problem with some of our more cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“After all, Bob himself was, essentially, a spiritual creature created from the energy of thought. The characters within a book were, from… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, another Republican who I probably didn't agree with on much, right after 9/11 went to a mosque and joined… — Steve King Copy Share Image
But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Alongside this [apostolic succession], largely hidden, existing on a "charismatic" rather than an official level, there is secondly the apostolic succession of… — Dr. Herman A. Middleton Copy Share Image
It's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar’s book The Limits of Science: ‘I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“the Bible does not flatter us. It is not trying to sell us anything that promises to make life easier. It doesn’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under… — Henry Benjamin Whipple Copy Share Image
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
We may be forced to consume considerable time before the spirit cooperates. For example, God would like to enlarge the scope of… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The Buddha didn’t set out to found a religion or to convert people to a belief – he simply taught a system… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paul saith, 'Not of works, lest any man should boast.' Now, faith excludes all boasting. The hand which receives charity does not… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Did Jesus Christ, he asked, suspect that someday his church would spread to the farthest corners of Earth? Did Jesus Christ, he… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“When toxic church or ministry leaders feel threatened by the truth being revealed, they attack. The perfect target is the messenger of… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
“The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas.… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“PRAYER OF COMMUNION We who are about to partake of each other, shall walk past all amorous sickness and deaths, for we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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