Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I began my pilgrimage on the first of January in 1953. It is my spiritual birthday of sorts. It was a period… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Celebration heartily done makes our deprivations and sorrows seem small, and we find in it great strength to do the will of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Spiritualism is not Religion: It does not divide, it unites; It advocates oneness of spirit with the universe; It involves knowing the… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered… — Greg Epstein Copy Share Image
“When you give a present, you are giving part of your spirit to the other person. That’s why presents in Japan are… — Hector Garcia Copy Share Image
“when you push beyond your boundaries and align your steps with the heart of God, He will break the rules to accelerate… — Sergio de la Mora Copy Share Image
If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“If you want to know why the “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“His puppets have a nihilistic spirit, if you'd understand what I meant by that. Sometimes his puppets won't perform at all. He… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would… — Marghanita Laski Copy Share Image
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As we attend the temple, there can come to us a dimension of spirituality and a feeling of peace which will transcend… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“...We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The stereotype of the pale, emaciated ascetic who has developed total control of all his reactions and responses does not fit our… — William A. Barry Copy Share Image
“For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Baptism is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“We’ve lost the real Jesus—or at least exchanged him for a newer, safer, sanitized, ineffectual one. We’ve created a Christian subculture that… — Jefferson Bethke Copy Share Image
