“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
“The most tragic thing anyone could ever say to us is “Oh – you're a Christian? I had no idea!” It is… — Pastor Steve Bainbridge Copy Share Image
You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be part of a scene… — Aaron Gillespie Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliché, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records… — Bede Copy Share Image
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“The Reformers laid special emphasis upon this element of faith. They were opposing the Romish view that faith is assent. It is… — John Murray Copy Share Image
“We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really… — Brent Yaciw Copy Share Image
“Passing Proposition 8 did not stop LGBTQ couples from going to sleep that night with their partners. What it did accomplish, however,… — Timothy Kurek Copy Share Image
“This is not true, you give yourself the right to adopt a religion that orders you to kill others, and you say,… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that the point of the hard way is that we must be heroic. The attitude of "heroism"… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
“And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of… — Siang-Yang Tan Copy Share Image
“If we are to make the ordinary man aware of the spiritual uity out of which asll the separate activities of our… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image