“Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.” — J.S. Bach Copy Share Image
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If you dont have appropriate boundaries, youll compromise your faith. I struggled spiritually for a while and I didnt have many Christian… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
“REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
“There is no sin nature in there. There is nothing of the old creation that lives inside of your new creation spirit.… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making,… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.” — Alexander Strauch Copy Share Image
“Europe has become a post-Christian culture in which the principal religious influence is visible in art treasures and cathedrals filled with tourists… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Theology that does not touch the heart—that does not resonate with your inner spirit so that it changes you—has failed at its… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
“When we are a spiritual student, our gender identity is omni-gender and our relationship status is omni-relationship-status.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment,… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
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