For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it… — Herbert Copy Share Image
It is true that not even Christ is seen, but he exists; he is risen, he is alive, he is close to… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“Yes, faith is vital to everything, and “without faith it is impossible to please Him.” But faith’s focus must always be Jesus… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me. She never stopped. Whether working professionally or with her many charities… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
“It’s impossible to be a disciple or a follower of someone and not end up like that person. Jesus said, “A disciple… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
“The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Some husbands think, "This is my wife," or a parent thinks "This is my child." From a spiritual perspective, this is a… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I just feel like the people who are discouraged about religion, it's [really] the connotation of people that go to church. People… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
“Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church. In order… — Nelson Searcy Copy Share Image
The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The Muslim, the modernist, and the Christian each believes that his or her story alone is the true story of the world,… — Craig G. Bartholomew Copy Share Image
“A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“. . . the symptoms and effects of the life of faith are totally unspectacular. . . .true covenant faith is expressed… — Daniel I. Block Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is, in many ways, like a religion. It is a daily practice, a way of life, a set of rituals,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from… — Ali A. Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Even after human beings have reached adulthood and developmental maturity, there remain hindrances in human nature that make it difficult for them… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
“This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they’re dance partners. It’s possible to hold your faith… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image