“It has been said that the Negroes do not connect morals with religion. The historian would like to know what race or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
“Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be… — Prem Prakash Copy Share Image
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
“Was very weary, having walked in the sun about fifteen or sixteen miles, yet had the satisfaction of discoursing with some money-changers… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Your heart tells you your life path, goals, and passions. The heart has a passion so deep it burns within you like… — Sarah Christine Lalonde Copy Share Image
“No doubt the world's shamans have run the gamut from true believer to calculating fraud, and no doubt many true beliefs have… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must… — Irina Tweedie Copy Share Image
“I, Wonder, say to you truly all that we are is just one motion of breath and divinity rushing together - to… — Renee Hummel Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Even as I burn, So brightly, I still, As we all do, Struggle along, In the Dark, That presses in, From all… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally… — John Piper Copy Share Image
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“I have observed a number of church people through the years who were grounded in biblical truth, faithful in church attendance, and… — Judson Edwards Copy Share Image
“I have, however, to live in an age of Faith — the sort of thing I used to hear praised and recommended… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“The Risen Christ is the standing icon of humanity in its final and full destiny. He is the pledge and guarantee of… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Even from the most rigorous scientific perspective, unselfishness and concern for others are not only in our own interests but also, in… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
“The good life is not found in dreams of progress,but in coping with tragic contingencies.We have been reared on religions and philosophies… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather,… — Sue Mallory Copy Share Image
One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“Jesus gives each of his Followers, not just his first Apostles, authority & power to heal every sickness, raise the dead, and… — Gary Patton Copy Share Image
“just as America was the first modern land where people could practice freedom of religion, perhaps someday America will be a place… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
