“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers… — Neil Evans Copy Share Image
“When I look into your face, O Law, my spirit shudders. When I hear your thunders, my heart is melted like wax… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, the topic of religion seems much more complex, and I have a more complex relationship with it myself because I love… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
“However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it… — Origen Copy Share Image
“We do not pray to inform God of our needs, because He knows what we need before we ask. What is prayer… — Bill Mills Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a powerful spiritual practice that can alter your state of mind and change your life. On a spiritual level, regular… — Sarah Rowland Copy Share Image
There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god,… — Steve McVey Copy Share Image
We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The… — Mamie Thornbrue Copy Share Image
I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Israel is the historical definition of the specific nature of the religious consciousness, save only that here this consciousness was circumscribed by… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Watching the spontaneous acts of kindness, compassion, and generosity, courage, and bravery in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings was so… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
A presence surrounds an enlightened person. That presence has nothing to do with the body; when the body is gone,the presence still… — OSHO Copy Share Image
The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness,… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact,… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“To whatever extent your mind is aligned with love, you will receive divine compensation for any lack in your material existence. From… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
“Being a disciple of Jesus is not primarily a matter of getting the right ideas and doctrines and beliefs into your head… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“If you do not believe in what your religion teaches, why continue to support a belief which is contradictory with your feelings.… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith;… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
