Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I believe that dreaming an _impossible_ world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between _the world-as-it-is_ (reality) and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
Bible Gateway has created a way to make the Word of God accessible and reflective of the technological world we live in.… — DeVon Franklin Copy Share Image
Some elements are trying to create friction between the two communities in India. They target religion-based division with the sole purpose of… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
I create the concept, which for me is about deciding upon the right girl and the right 'spirit', and thinking of all… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
“As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary;… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians--when… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of God; others… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
I think that the Conservative Party has to do better in reaching diverse communities, in letting people know that they're inclusive of… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
“Iraq's Christian communities date back to the first centuries of the religion. Before the 2003 U.S-led invasion, around 1 million Christians called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah,… — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, is found in numerous pre-Christian religions/cults, dating back to ancient times. Baptism or lustration… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should… — Charlie Dent Copy Share Image
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“One the greatest spiritual secrets is that you can’t become someone without changing your previous state of being. The two remain different,… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“A terrible thing has now happened to religion. Except in the places where it can still enforce itself by fear superimposed on… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Learn that trust precedes faith. Faith is a little like putting your car into gear, and right now you cannot exercise faith,… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“What is there within the Bible?" "It is a dangerous question. We might do better not to come too near this burning… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“religions have much, much more in common than they like to admit. The beliefs are almost always the same; it’s just that… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I am really committed to my faith journey, and I am committed to my family. My husband and I have been married… — Jodi Benson Copy Share Image
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“I AM in control. I AM the only authority in my life. I AM divinely protected by the light of my being.… — Susan Shumsky Copy Share Image
“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
