I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more dangerous, more compelling, more freeing, more radical, more real, more satisfying, more powerful than a person holding a smidgen… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we… — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries. — Beryl Bender Birch Copy Share Image
“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.” — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“In essence, what is forbidden to do is likewise forbidden as an object of reflection. Included in this is thinking about the… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part… — Steven Emerson Copy Share Image
“Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls" "Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?" "She said the Pope… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth'… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“If you have found the secret of immortality, don't take a megaphone and announce it to the whole world! Give this secret… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Amazement of something in front of your eyes, which is so strong that it makes you refuse to believe it. A refusal… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
“He who marries the spirit of the age will soon become a widower. —Dean William R. Inge” — David K. Naugle Copy Share Image
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Religion often is very embarrassing, and I totally get it. So I am sort of sometimes burdened with the fact that I… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires. — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image