“Now, brothers and sisters, we must do our duty, whatever that duty might be. Peace may be denied for a season. Some… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't have a religion,because I have TRUTH,I will not follow their many ways,I'm held by my ROOT.TRUTH is TRUTH, and IS… — RW Copy Share Image
“Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very important, because without it there's no mutual component to your relationship,… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The view implicit in my education was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The pilgrimage of Italy, which I now accomplished, had long been the object of my curious devotion. The passage of Mount Cenis,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Religion retards intellectual growth, represses individual thought, is the adversary of science, the restraint against invention and the stalwart of what would… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw brightness… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Religion searches for reason, and never finds purpose. They think the purpose is to have better reasons. The people are blind, and… — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
“All loves have much in common, and any one will offer a useful, if not painless, education in the limitations and possibilities… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Hence a bolder techno-religion seeks to sever the humanist umbilical cord altogether. It foresees a world that does not revolve around the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you noticed that men struggle every day to correct the defects of my work? What is a plane or a diving… — Jose Maria Ferreira Borges de Castro Copy Share Image
“The entire history of asceticism proves this to be only too true. The Church, as well as Puritanism, has fought the flesh… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, there’s a way to lessen the impact of spiritual amnesia. It’s found in practicing the discipline of gratitude, the habit of… — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
I think football is a game where people come together and football should bring everybody together, whether it is religion or skin… — David Alaba Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Hopepunk is a spirit or a mood. It isn't an actual thing. It is a feeling. It is the Scandinavian concept of… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“And Sometimes they see themselves as the problem. this is close to the truth, but not close enough. The problem is in… — Jeff Vanderstelt Copy Share Image
“...as our gaze into the luminous vastness deepens and strengthens, and the prayer word grows quiet, and spiritual practices fall away due… — Martin LairdInto the silent land Copy Share Image
