Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you want to overcome the spirit of slander, blame not the person who falls, but the demon that prompted them to… — St. John Climicus Copy Share Image
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum. — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
“August is the month when wars start. It’s when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down… — Al Aronowitz Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“ We have no right to decide where we should be placed, or to have preconceived ideas as to what God is preparing… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“the Christian faith, while wildly misrepresented in so much of American culture, is really about death and resurrection. It’s about how God… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
Religion cannot be allowed to be dominated by stupid politicians. The situation is as if sick people are trying to dominate physicians,… — OSHO Copy Share Image
“I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or… — Kouta Hirano Copy Share Image
“The kinds of things that I would say on Nightline, you can’t say in one sentence because they depart from standard religion.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The seed of error that took root during the fourth and fifth centuries blossomed into the Roman Catholic Church—a perversion of biblical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith "Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c)… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“As a full-time paid religious person, I understand the desire to restrict God’s work to only those who are formally recognized by… — Mike Erre Copy Share Image
I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full… — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so… — Jennifer Kavanagh Copy Share Image
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“You can finish reading the letters in the Bible, but, we can't stop getting inspirations from it at different times.” — Daniel I. OWOEYE Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It was actually in the Atlantic West that we first witnessed the paradox of religious fundamentalism: that it reflects the weakening of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“What which does not destroy you...makes you a hella of a lot smarter. All very necessary to take you to a new… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him… — J. Golden Kimball Copy Share Image
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic,… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
Faith is trusting in Gods plan, not trusting God will give us our plans... He is not our magic genie.. He is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.” quote by Kouta Hirano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/kouta-hirano-93045_god_i-need-just-be-a-bayonet-a-bayonet-named_1938861.jpg)
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