“Do the religious texts and exemplars support anymal welfare or anymal liberation? What do religions teach us to be with regard to… — Lisa Kemmerer Copy Share Image
“Howard Roark built a temple to the human spirit. He saw man as strong, proud, clean, wise and fearless. He saw man… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In our line of work, it is easy to fall into the trap of depending on my husband’s faith. His vision, his… — Lori Wilhite 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
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel… — Rick Fields Copy Share Image
We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and gthat not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9not as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that the point of the hard way is that we must be heroic. The attitude of "heroism"… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Passing Proposition 8 did not stop LGBTQ couples from going to sleep that night with their partners. What it did accomplish, however,… — Timothy Kurek Copy Share Image
“This is not true, you give yourself the right to adopt a religion that orders you to kill others, and you say,… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
“The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really… — Brent Yaciw Copy Share Image
“The Reformers laid special emphasis upon this element of faith. They were opposing the Romish view that faith is assent. It is… — John Murray Copy Share Image
“We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of… — Siang-Yang Tan Copy Share Image
“If we are to make the ordinary man aware of the spiritual uity out of which asll the separate activities of our… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Spiritual pride is a far more deadly sin than concubinage; selfishness is a far more deadly sin than polygamy; hatred is a… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
“Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is… — The Buddha's Fire Sermon Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood".… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So how do you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or those you love? Above all, never lose faith… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“Spiritual growth is not running faster, as in more meetings, more Bible studies, and more prayer meetings. Spiritual growth happens when we… — Michael Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else wouldn't good men uphold' em. But they are not altogether necessary. They… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
