The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
We need to stop comparing ourselves to others, and stop patting ourselves on the back for attaining artificial measurements of spirituality. We… — Dan Schilling Copy Share Image
Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
“You’ve been tested.’ He advised me to try and ‘forgive and pardon, and this way seek to become beloved by God’ without… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The Cold Within" Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so… — James Patrick Kinney Copy Share Image
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“Discipleship is messy. There are seasons of growth followed by seasons of pruning. Some seasons burst forth with rapid change, and others… — Curtis Ferrell Copy Share Image
“Though Calvin (1559/1960) frequently warned of the noetic effects of sin regarding spiritual matters (see the Institutes 2.1.8; 2.2.18-25), he also extolled… — Eric L. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is a tragedy that different interpretations of the sacrament of union with Christ and communion with his body have occasioned so… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“It was as if I’d suffered a chemical change of the spirit: as if the acid balance of my psyche had shifted… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings in a manner that is as fresh… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“overcoming fear, personal scarifies for the cause of freedom of all, and ability to see good in your enemies – No one… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
The one philosophy or religion I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
