No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back,… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The spirit of the whites was really devilish; they seemed determined to drive the Indians to the wall, not one had spoken… — Daniel Webster Jones Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Science is limited only to the physical (physiology) and mental (psychology) planes, but mysticism even examine the spiritual plane. At the same… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Instead of animals, we can offer our own life-force energy to the gods in the form of spiritual vows. A typical modern… — Michael Denney Copy Share Image
It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
We have laws to deal with people who defame other people's religion. We have laws to deal with people who try to… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Many people operate as though the definition of faith were, Don't ask questions, just believe. They quote Jesus himself, who taught his… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard.… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
There isn't any (afterlife), you dingbat! This is it, baby! Enjoy, carefully! Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started.… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
“We can’t be lone rangers. You need to be fed, Hannah—not just in the sacred journey group or in your private devotions.… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
“But Scotty has helped me to realize that once God rescues sinners, his plan is not to steer them beyond the gospel… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“The name which I have selected will prepare the reader to expect no new doctrines in this volume. It is simple, unadulterated,… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
“What we can say with some certainty is that American young people have enormous trouble putting faith into words. It was unclear… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image
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