What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Something is amiss, deeply wrong, something is deeply wrong with the way we're living our lives collectively, with the way we are… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
“As Maximus further concludes, the three laws exhibit the principal ends to which human nature is called: the natural law grants us… — John Behr Copy Share Image
To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
“The danger of having such willing volunteers is that we use them, exploit them and forget to train them. Then they burn… — Colin Marshall Copy Share Image
For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“All church members ought to be third class passengers—ready to dismount and push all together, and push with a will. That was… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I don't really care whether Jesus had ever walked upon planet earth or not. I'm only interested in three great ideas… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
“The people who are most vulnerable to overextending themselves on behalf of ministry relationships are people who struggle with intimacy—both with God… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“By mobilizing relational ministry from how, by stopping only at Langmead's first aspect of incarnational mission (Jesus as a pattern for mission),… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
When I dropped religion, when I broke that curse, doors really began to swing wide open for me and then I really… — Jared Cannonier Copy Share Image
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“But I won’t watch them go to war again. I’ve been to war, you know, to save civilization from the reptile hordes.… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“A contented Christian does not seek to choose his cross but leaves God to choose for him. He is content with both… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“The other thing I cannot help remarking upon is the overweening confidence with which the religions assert minute details for which they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“Do you have a concept of hell in your religion?” Bilbow asked. Prabhupada paused briefly. “This is hell,” he said matter-of-factly. “London… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
“As dhimmi, Jews and Christians had rights, including the right to practice their religion and establish their own communities. In return, they… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Peter's hands had ceased trembling. He had been granted perspective. This was not Gethsemane: he wasn't headed for Golgotha, he was embarking… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don’t just come to show God our devotion and give… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance… Firm in my faith, I shall have force… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“LISTEN TO ME CONTINUALLY. I have much to communicate to you, so many people and situations in need of prayer. I am… — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image