“The power that the world acknowledges comes out of the mouth of a gun; the power that the person of faith respects… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The greatest stumbling point of the church is in the department of doctrine. No one can agree on the same thing. There… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures. — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“God is the universe. We are all now living inside the body of God. There is nowhere to go to get there,… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme, McHugh is telling us. If you don’t love Jesus out loud, then… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
“Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws like is losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Although the Bible is a living book, it will not jump into your palms pleading, "Read me please". You've to make a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“For the gospel is not just good news for people getting ready to die—it’s good news for people who are now ready… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I always want to be malleable. I always want be flexible and open. I think that's how you stay young, in your… — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have… — Bill Kovach Copy Share Image
Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
“It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will… — Gary Smith Copy Share Image
“How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe? And without their belief Mother Earth will… — Brom Copy Share Image
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced… — David Platt Copy Share Image
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image