“The sanctification ... demanded is always an implicate of the sanctification that originates in God's mercy. Hence the sanctification of believers is… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“A gardener cannot make a seed grow. She can simply create the conditions for growth to occur and then patiently wait. A… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest… My mind will be clear as water from the sacred… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I was born a Christian, but I became an atheist back in high school because I just started losing faith. I'd lost… — SpaceGhostPurrp Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is… — Augusto Monterroso Copy Share Image
“Disagreements are inevitable. There will always be opposing viewpoints and a variety of perspectives on most subjects. Tastes differ as well as… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God,… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“However high, wide, long, or deep your faith may grow through the years, always leave an ellipsis at every point of your… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I certainly do attempt to live according to spiritual principles. That's always the foundation of each and every day. I have experienced… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“THE PILGRIMS HAD BEEN DRIVEN by fiercely held spiritual beliefs. They had sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Religious ritual invariably offers a sacrificial display of commitment to supernatural agents that is materially costly and emotionally convincing. Such ritual conveys… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
“The best approach to religious codes that have become rigid and absolute is to acknowledge their arbitrariness and use them, if we… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Because of the divorce from the historic Church, Evangelicalism has sought for a new way to satisfy the need for materiality. This… — Andrew Stephen Damick Copy Share Image
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
![“[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you…” quote by Marya Mannes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c1/marya-mannes-6222_comfort_the-sea-is-the-healer-and-the-reviver-it_2686471.jpg)
