“That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the old foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings. — Melford Spiro Copy Share Image
“We accuse ourselves of not having professed our faith more courageously, of not having prayed more faithfully, of not having believed more… — Stuttgart Declaration 1945 Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“I approach this project in the spirit of a fast: an intentional reduction, a deliberate abstinence to summon God's movement in my… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it’s still… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
A woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief. — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility… — Katie Ledecky Copy Share Image
Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today,… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image
In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described.… — Israel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Neglect of prayer signals serious deficiencies in a ministry even if other signs of success have not diminished. We must always remember… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“Scriptures are not of private interpretation (2 Peter 1:20), and the whole of Scripture witnesses to Jesus (1 Peter 1:10–12). So” — Robert K McIver Copy Share Image
We all appreciate and adore our differences, differences in creed and colour, differences in ideas and opinions, faith and belief. — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it.… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend"… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
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