When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
When the religious principles, like the philosophical, are translated into reality, sometimes the reality forces violence on you, and there is no… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protestants moved… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Pastors are appointed by God to help their people see that the church walks in the light and all others in darkness.… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Beauty can break a heart and make it think about something more spiritual than the mindless routine we go through day after… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
“This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields.… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of… — Jim George Copy Share Image
“The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking… — Robert Alley Copy Share Image
“What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sola scriptura contends that Scripture is complete; it holds absolute authority over the believer.19 This position is of course far removed from… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
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The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued;… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
I really value the freedom I have as a Christian that's an artist but not necessarily a Christian artist. I think it… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
Never allow the cross to lose it’s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth… — Brandon Cox Copy Share Image
In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
“I call for all religions, cultures, countries, crews, parties and peacemakers to unite for the sake of building a peaceful, united global… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“Yes, the early leaders and the people generally of this great nation recognized the necessity for spiritual support if the nation was… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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