If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without… — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Dharma (Religion) is such a hidden thing that no one can know about it. Dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation) does not occur by going… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is a blessèd home, Beyond this land of woe, Where trials never come, Nor tears of sorrow flow; Where faith is… — Henry W. Baker Copy Share Image
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality . . .” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I meet people who use the term "plant spirit" as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo,… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
“At family gatherings in the United States, two off-limit subjects are almost always put together in the same phrase: no religion or… — Bryanna Plog Copy Share Image
“Caplan mentions three traits that are more susceptible to parental influence. The first two are politics and religion. To be fair, Caplan… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Christ is our Friend; He is also the Righteous King. God is our Father; He is also the Sovereign Lord. Christianity can… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect… — Robert Rainy Copy Share Image
“It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like… — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
“I'd rather live my life believing in God to die and see there is one. Because if there isn't one, it means… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
“Many of the more ghastly and idiotic aspects of the Great War were made possible by the coincidence of mass-production and the… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The minute you start getting down about how your life is panned out - I'm not a religious person, but how God… — Hornswoggle Copy Share Image
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Positive, truthful and helping people always get rewards. Oneness, love, compassion and enlightenment can be attained by following the spiritual laws of… — Hina Hashmi Copy Share Image
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford… — James Madison Copy Share Image
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.” — Mary Ellen Flora Copy Share Image
Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Masters of all religions do so that turn abusing language into religious discours, because people of all religions in abundance do it… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If you don't have a base - you can't not have a spiritual base and survive. That's probably what has kept me… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
“These terrorists are the antithesis of Islam. They’re not Muslim. Violence has no place in religion, and the terrorists are responsible for… — Samira Ahmed Copy Share Image
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“three rules for writing as a spiritual practice: (1) Don’t write what you know; (2) Don’t write what you don’t know; and… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
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