“You have here a parable, the subject of which might be called The Persistence of Truth … Whatever fears, adversities, or doubts assail you,… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy.… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with… — Frieda Lawrence Copy Share Image
“No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the… — Ann Scott Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed,… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds… — John Granger Copy Share Image
“God and disciple; these are the only two paths of progression in religion. The one and the same entity, when in illusion… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Rather than seeking inspiration and meaning in life from the Bible, our culture has symbolically replaced it with the dictionary, a symbol… — Glenn Pearson Copy Share Image
Close your eyes, surround yourself with all persons who appreciate you, like you, love you. Who have positive emotional attachment with you,… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Jesus understood himself as bearer of the word of God in the end times. His call to decision in the face of… — Hammann Konrad Copy Share Image
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
“That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“In allowing the crucifixion to take place, God did the world an incalculable favor. Though infinitely powerful, compassionate, and wise, he could… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
“Salahkah bila kita membela seseorang yang kita cintai walaupun sesungguhnya kita tahu ia tak memerlukan pembelaan kita, Salahkah bila kita membelai mesra… — Gema Copy Share Image
There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image