Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Does that mean that religious texts are worthless as guides to ethics? Of course not. They are magnificent sources of insight into… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Obviously the Lord has created us with different personalities, as well as differing degrees of energy, interest, health, talent, and opportunity. So… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“The biggest threat to the church today is fans who call themselves Christians but aren’t actually interested in following Christ. They want… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit.… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
“The essential act of religion … is prayer. Prayer is all-powerful. … God is to [the pious soul] … the immediate, efficient… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
“The term “Neo-traditionalist” is sometimes now applied by outside academics to those Parsis/Iranis who adopt a theological understanding of Zoroastrianism informed by… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“It is important to draw out the pastoral consequences of the Council’s teaching, which reflects an ancient conviction of the Church. First,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine,… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love; every brave suffering for the right; every surrender of self to something higher than… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
“The church is the real thing when it is not consumed with the assertion of power in culture, but it is driven… — Stephen J. Nichols Copy Share Image
“With religious nonconformists outnumbering Anglicans after 1700, and economic motives eclipsing any sense of a religious mission, the colony adopted a moderate… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us… — Johannes Gutenberg Copy Share Image
“Deep in our bones lies an intuition that we arrive here carrying a bundle of gifts to offer to the community. Over… — Francis Weller Copy Share Image
From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything;… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
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