“Personal trust and spiritual maturity were often in direct proportion to the amount of suffering that had been endured for the faith.” — Nik Ripkin Copy Share Image
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are three stupids: A woman who thinks she does not deserve more, a man who believes he is superior, and a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When Jesus was hailed with the words, “Blessed be the womb that bore you,” he retorted, “Blessed be the one whom God… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
This gospel has often been spoken of as a way of life. This however is not quite accurate. Consisting as it does… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to look at every Muslim woman the same and to assume that every experience within the religion is… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“Like the religious elite of Jesus’ time, we are destined for a life of being barrier makers and line drawers if we… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
“There was a pleasantness to the air and a spirit about the town that did not come from its color, but from… — gail carriger Copy Share Image
The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Share the little you have with the one who has nothing and God will bless you with more of what you have… — Refilwe Fifi Mahlangu Copy Share Image
“Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If the federal government believes free contraception is vital, then surely it can find another way to implement it than by forcing… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore… — Sholem Asch Copy Share Image
Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe. Love is the spirit of life unto adorned body… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
“I decided, on the spot, to let God into my heart, in the hope that my newfound faith can somehow be used… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
“And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
