But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“... There is a publication classification in an upper corner. It reads Religion. I'm immediately skeptical because I've always group books such… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“More than ever, we have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility. We excel… — Craig Gross Copy Share Image
“I felt that I was literally standing on a plateau somewhere out there in space, a plateau that science and technology had… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Bear with me then, if lawful what I ask; Love not the heav'nly Spirits, and how thir Love Express they, by looks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“Many concepts and ideas become laws in time, like the laws of physics. In time, many of these same concepts lose validity… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“If we add to our Churches by becoming worldly, by taking in persons who have never been born again; if we add… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The foundation of this so-called “hyper-grace” message is that we are free to rest from our religious efforts. We’re not under obligation… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
And God grant that His fire be not quenched! God save us from any smoothing over of these questions in the interests… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
“man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified… Religion or crime,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every… — William James Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit began to move mightily. As we continued to worship, I sensed that the birthing spirit was sweeping over us… — Bill Hamon Copy Share Image
“... if history is told correctly, no man has caused the worldwide stir that Jesus Christ did 2000 years ago... Jesus was… — DC Talk Copy Share Image
“Regeneration took place in our spirit, not in our physical body or in our mind. This means the Triune God is now… — Witness Lee Copy Share Image
“Religion is the opium of the people. He believed that, that dyspeptic little joint-keeper. Yes, and music is the opium of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“This kind of talk would have infuriated Antonia if she has heard it. Francisco often muses about the scientific points of the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
My biggest prayer is to love her right. I want to love her like Christ loved the Church, love her like her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Since the early 1920s a unique spiritual path has existed in Japan. This distinctly Japanese version of yoga is called Shin-shin-toitsu-do, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image