I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mirthful in appearance as if born optimists. There are also no… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The most tragic thing anyone could ever say to us is “Oh – you're a Christian? I had no idea!” It is… — Pastor Steve Bainbridge Copy Share Image
You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be part of a scene… — Aaron Gillespie Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“For a considerable portion of humanity today, it is possible and indeed likely that one's neighbor, one's colleague, or one's employer will… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Others read the Bible to make it fit in and prove their favorite creed or notions; and if it does not do… — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records… — Bede Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
“Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliché, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but… — Jessicka Copy Share Image
Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of… — Edith Grossman Copy Share Image
I feel like Christianity gets very misconstrued sometimes. People don't realize that every day is a normal day just like anybody else,… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“To write good religious science fiction, or indeed good religious fiction of any kind, is a challenge but one that it would… — Hal G.P. Colebatch Copy Share Image
America faces very real challenges. The climate crisis, inequality, stagnant wages, student debt - the list goes on. Rather than address these… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
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