“I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
What if I say that in my view about the least Christian thing you could do is what the Republican party are… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“That day, I thought that I held something important and that my life would be changed. But nothing of this nature is… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
“In accord with von Soden’s rigorous argument from canon law, Bultmann ruled out the suggestion that the secular state be made subject… — Hammann Konrad Copy Share Image
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
It's such a frustration when you see in the name of religion, in the name of God, what people are doing is… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is a saying that 'the psychotic drowns in the waters that the mystic swims in.' The health and structural integrity of… — Jason Kirkey Copy Share Image
The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The reason the program is so successful is because alcoholics help other alcoholics. I've never met a Normie (our lingo for a… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“These negative spirits are less successful with those who are nearer God’s dwelling-place; but at this early stage, as the soul is… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Getting closer to the truth is the result of hard work. Truth-seeking means analyzing presuppositions and propositions. It means criticizing evidence as… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
“How do we keep it?” asked Princess Sophie. “How do we keep the spirit of Christmas?” “That’s the real magic,” said Lady… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That which harms in the spiritual path (& progress) and benefits the worldly life, it is called deluded intellect (viprit buddhi). And… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
“I have underlined words and sentences in one of the Bibles that has always been my study Bible, but when I look… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“When we are harassed and reach the limit of our own strength, many of us then turn in desperation to God-"There are… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and -… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“It is this that ruins churches, that you do not seek to hear sermons that touch the heart, but sermons that will… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful,… — David J. Kalupahana Copy Share Image
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
