“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
If you KEEP WALKING, you will eventually get to your destination. Is your destination, to be a more godly man? Is your… — Dearlisa Copy Share Image
I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The sum and substance of the teachings and the achievements of Christ, which may have been interpreted as "miracles," were nothing more… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Shield Use: Faith Application: What we see are the devil’s attacks in the form of insults, setbacks, and temptations. But the shield… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
“Today's Quote of the Day is an excerpt from 'The Religion of God (Divine Love)' by His Divine Eminence RA Gohar Shahi… — His Divine Eminence Ra Gohar Shahi Copy Share Image
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its… — Terry Wolverton Copy Share Image
What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It's not the way I threw the football - it's not particular games that I won - but that they remember that… — Kurt Warner Copy Share Image
“There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be… — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm increasingly conscious of the fact that, even when we know a lot, there's an element of blind faith. For things to… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
“It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared was the rarest of… — Olivier A. Blanchard Copy Share Image
Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“all of your expectations be frustrated, May all of your plans be thwarted, May all of your desires be withered into nothingness,… — J R Briggs Copy Share Image
The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
...Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“In every time of season change: it is #wise to slow down and examine what our ego, thought-habits, and spiritual-energy are communicating… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“She replied that it was precisely men well versed in religion who beat their wives. The precepts of religion permitted such punishment.… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
Religion has been raising human consciousness for centuries. Whatever man is now, whatever little consciousness he has, the whole credit goes to… — OSHO Copy Share Image
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground,… — Signe Pike Copy Share Image