“Religious beliefs are culture bound…land overwhelmed by poverty, overcrowding, starvation, disease, class oppression and lack of any hope for a better future… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity within contemporary Islam, unfortunately, is something that we are not totally cognizant of, or… — Steven Emerson Copy Share Image
Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is properly… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“We’re not religious, but we’ve discussed the idea of an afterlife before, and Halley and I concluded that Valhalla is the best… — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system.… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The thing about purpose is, it’s not for you. Your purpose is what God does for others through you. It’s easy for… — B. Love Copy Share Image
The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“The roar of the sea may be joyous to a rejoicing spirit, but to the son of sorrow the wide, wide ocean… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The particularity of each New Testament author was in no way smothered by the unique process of inspiration. On the contrary, the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“The story is like the other stories about gods demanding acts of devotion and obedience. Gods who are never satisfied. The first… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Arguments amongst Muslim organisations in the West, for the most part, tend to be on the level of form of religion, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not enough that I hold an inspired book in my hands. I must have an inspired heart ... Revelation is… — A W Tozer Copy Share Image
It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
My mom is not religious, but she's a very spiritual, magical kind of lady. One time, when I was younger, my mom… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“After all, truth is not always a virtue when it is pursued for its own sake or, worse, simply to make its… — Josh Sundquist Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Jōchō’s discourse is multifaceted and ostensibly chaotic, but the spirit of Hagakure can best be summed up by the four simple oaths… — Tsunetomo Yamamoto Copy Share Image
As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of… — Katherine Stewart Copy Share Image
“The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us… — Albert M. Wolters Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“On the kabbalistic tree of so-called life we see the Sphinx present in the Yesod Sephirah upon which the Egyptian/Roman Judeo-Christian religion… — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So… — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
