“Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.” — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“The man possessed a communal strength of body and soul, coupled with endless compassion and a desire to help the less fortunate… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“America was always a religious country, and it remains the most religious of industrialized Western democracies. America derived its strength from religion,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine how much our religion would change if we heard it through the mouths of women, instead of only mostly… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty… — Sophie Hawley-Weld Copy Share Image
The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
I have great concern, but my concern is probably not what most people would think it would be.My concern is why is… — Paula White Copy Share Image
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Is it a fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, and how is it proved? If a God,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“The religious lesson is that God celebrates when the unrighteous change their way and return to the flock. In the secular sense… — Jim M. Perdue Copy Share Image
Even into a spiritual level I believe that there are dimensions around us that we can't see and forces happening that we… — Lights Copy Share Image
“In many ways, being a pastor is simply being a person. A person who shows up, a person who prays, a person… — Martha Spong Copy Share Image
“For years I was content to stay in my stuckness, to allow my mind and my faith to expand, but to let… — Dr. Willie Parker Copy Share Image
We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist… — William Temple Copy Share Image
I think that [Obama] is a powerful leader. I think he’s a brilliant man. I think that he has an incredible devotion… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of… — Ray A Copy Share Image
“Africa is a continent of contradiction not only in the area of natural resources. It is also a continent of contradiction in… — Alemayehu Mekonnen Copy Share Image
I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her destiny with great power for a specific purpose to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading and knowing the written word gives us Biblical knowledge. Encountering the Living Word in the written word is what changes lives.” — Ibrahim Sakkab Copy Share Image
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image