Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right… — Margaret Bondfield Copy Share Image
“In conclusion, those who, like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers… — His Holiness the Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“ 'Shoot the wounded ... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they… — Lynn Dove Copy Share Image
Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutional ized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The established religions no longer ask fundamental questions about our identity and our reason for living. Instead, they concentrate purely on a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religion is man's way of accepting life as an inevitable defeat. That it is not an inevitable defeat is a claim that… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at Indian society, it's a society made up of minorities. There's nobody who's not a minority, whether it's ethnicity,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“While the system of institutional churches of various stripes has been well established, the recovery of the independent assembly in homes, house… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
“The will of life and death, never share the same motivation... we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die… — unauthor Copy Share Image
Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born… — Mel White Copy Share Image
For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery is called… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Near beliefs are to blame for a new brand of Christianity that is epidemic in our homes and churches-a faith that has… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
“The True Believer ignores anything that doesn't fit his belief system. Instead, he inevitably comes to hold those beliefs at a very… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
My dad was tough on me growing up so I got a strong mind, strong spirit. So my mom and my dad… — Mark Ingram II Copy Share Image
“Public theology is first and foremost a reaction against the tendency to privatize the faith, restricting it to the question of an… — Kevin J. Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
