My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The past has been long gone, the present crawls lyk??? and the future is so far away:/ O Lord, into your hands… — Self Copy Share Image
There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We were still quite religious until I was about eight or nine. Then I watched my parents take a dramatic turn and… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
“The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points (in contemporary theology) do not in themselves indicate a deep final uncertainty,… — G.C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Now, there are things I like just fine about church, and I don’t just mean making money. The notion of getting together… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us,… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Spiritual vision requires that what we see with the eyes of our hearts will be more real to us than what we… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
“...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know you're not a man of faith, Edmond, but faith is found when one isn't looking for it and the day… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Unlike many such recipients of government largesse, however, she had qualifications beyond race, sex, and religion.” — Gregg Loomis Copy Share Image
Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image