Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by… — DeVon Franklin Copy Share Image
Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I think you must be some kind of a freak. Either that or you’re trying to convert me to your secret horse… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“Even when only partly understood, the Bible remained bigger than the niches to which it was relegated. For it requires that we… — James Wm. McClendon Jr Copy Share Image
When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Let us be honest. Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno? Did all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“As Tertullian put it, “We make the sign of the cross on our foreheads at every turn, at our going in or… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
I am so tired of criticalness being called discernment. Do you want to know true discernment? Paul said "That your love may… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
“Believe me, once you have tasted worship—the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries,… — Pervez Musharraf Copy Share Image
Just the little bit that I've learned about Judaism, I didn't realize how, dare I say, intense that religion is as far… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
May we all make the journey to Bethlehem in spirit, taking with us a tender caring heart as our gift to the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day,… — Bonnie L. Oscarson Copy Share Image
If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
I am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion. — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith… — Abba Hillel Silver Copy Share Image
