Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“To reach this growing post-Christendom society in the West will obviously take more than what we ordinarily call an evangelistic church; it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I looked at all the caged animals. . . . . . . the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their… — Jim Willis Copy Share Image
“I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“So we would say in yoga that the subtle precedes the gross, or spirit precedes matter. But yoga says we must deal… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
“To live in high spirits but not recklessly, to be lighthearted without swaggering or rampaging, to show trust and truthfulness but not… — David Nyberg Copy Share Image
Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
“Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit.… — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
“The point is not rigid legalism. The point is the spirit of the communication—understandable only because Moses was intimate with God (forty… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Even though the god in all these religions is basically the same, each regards the way chosen by the others as reprehensible,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“What theological conservatives need to guard against, though, is thinking that because we affirm the Bible to be God’s inerrant and authoritative… — Stephen J. Nichols Copy Share Image
“You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting… — Earl Doherty Copy Share Image
“The first thing I fell in love with about Orthodoxy was that my opinions are irrelevant, which is a sign of the… — Atom Tate Copy Share Image
“Peacemaking contains all the elements of the Christian faith. Peacemaking is the result of not only taking the beatitudes seriously, but living… — Donald R. Clymer Copy Share Image
I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
As we move forward into this 21st century, we encourage all of you to take a positive step toward universal understanding. Touch… — Masami Saionji Copy Share Image
I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“He wills that we take ourselves with great strength to the faith of holy Church and find there our most precious mother… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“Established religion is like established anything else. It's easy. It offers answers you can get prepackaged and predigested, right off the shelf,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“The difference between the masculine and feminine spiritual constitution is represented by their respective roles in reproduction. The man is the giver… — Chana Weisberg Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“There I found my sole comfort: Jesus, my only friend. I could talk only to Him. Talking to other people bored me,… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
“Like the old knights, always in warfare, not always on their steeds dashing forward with their lances in rest to unhorse an… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
