“You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you… — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
“Gnosticism may rightly be described as an alien religion in that it explores mankind’s cosmic alienation; the belief that this is not… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they’re dance partners. It’s possible to hold your faith… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from… — Ali A. Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is, in many ways, like a religion. It is a daily practice, a way of life, a set of rituals,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even after human beings have reached adulthood and developmental maturity, there remain hindrances in human nature that make it difficult for them… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
“. . . the symptoms and effects of the life of faith are totally unspectacular. . . .true covenant faith is expressed… — Daniel I. Block Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“The Muslim, the modernist, and the Christian each believes that his or her story alone is the true story of the world,… — Craig G. Bartholomew Copy Share Image
“You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth Fairy are creatures in which every child has absolute faith until it is utterly… — Jim Whitefield Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Being on the outside made me realize that religion is flawed. People twist things to suit themselves and their needs. It makes… — Natasha Preston Copy Share Image
Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“What are these deaths and revivals? It is clear that I do not live whenever I lose my faith in the existence… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king -… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his first Bible, the one his… — Charles Grant Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christians, like everyone else, are prone to be selfish and scared, and wanting others to think well of them. So, although we… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
