“Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“A Lutheran church in Nebraska is typically a place where any mad passion for Christ is politely concealed. Men and women recite… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
“Language was critically important to the religious transition. The rise of Islam meant not just the eclipse of Christianity but the near… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Though churches may lose political influence under Christian states or in predominantly Christian societies, though they might be secularized, they do not… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“The Fathers of the Republic, I believe, were far cleverer fellows than they are commonly represented to be, even in the schoolbooks.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“Strive to engage in activities that require constant self-development. Nurture and develop the physical body, but also our spiritual nature. We exist… — Janet M. Tavakoli Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“It was like a religious conversion for me. In fact, it’s kind of like sex—one of those things that everyone thinks they… — Judith Ryan Hendricks Copy Share Image
“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received… — Glenn L. Pace Copy Share Image
“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty… — William James Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Apostolic ministry is not just about founding new churches and movements; it is as much about the renewal of existing organizations, that… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables the person to pay attention to… — Jeannette A. Bakke Copy Share Image
With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... believed that nature was filled with spirits.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. Where justice is… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“What the nation needs is a prophetic voice. But even our churches have been corrupted by the culture—turned into trendy nightclubs where… — Todd Starnes Copy Share Image
“Americans have seen this before. In June 2008, then Senator Barack Obama assured everyone, “I have said consistently that I believe that… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image