“Religious beliefs are culture bound…land overwhelmed by poverty, overcrowding, starvation, disease, class oppression and lack of any hope for a better future… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to… — Marilla Ricker Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Meditate?” I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Without an acceptance of multiple biblical church models, your own movement and network may plant cookie-cutter churches in neighborhoods where that model… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“In our discussion of the need for balanced ministry fronts in chapter 23, we looked at the five models of church proposed… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Haki' is a power that lies dormant in all the world's creatures.'Presence', 'fighting spirit' and 'intimidation.' It is not different from the… — Rayleigh Copy Share Image
“We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“That one now hears the word "woke" everywhere is a giveaway that spiritual conversion, not political agreement, is the demand. Relentless speech… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“An act of terrorism is not an ideology, nor religion. It is the lack of hope, of opportunity and of love. When… — Mahima Martel Copy Share Image
When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
“Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“To become a Compassionate One is to become the likeness of the Compassionate God experiencing infinite sadness over undisclosed virtualities; it is… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“With each step I take I am: Growing stronger, more spiritual and wiser. Climbing and conquering the imaginary mountains in my mind.… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God;… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
“The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Probably the prevailing opinion, that woman was created for man, may have taken its rise from Moses's poetical story; yet, as very… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“For generations, the Gandhi family has been more spiritual than religious. This may seem to be a contradiction, but it is not.… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We ought to preach the gospel, not as our views at all, but as the mind of God--the testimony of Jehovah concerning… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image