Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
Many people operate as though the definition of faith were, Don't ask questions, just believe. They quote Jesus himself, who taught his… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
We have laws to deal with people who defame other people's religion. We have laws to deal with people who try to… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“Instead of animals, we can offer our own life-force energy to the gods in the form of spiritual vows. A typical modern… — Michael Denney Copy Share Image
“Good (shubha) is considered ekantik (one sided view point); pure (shuddha) is considered anekant (all inclusive viewpoints). Moksha (ultimate liberation) is through… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“Though many desperately and relentlessly cling to old, divisive ideas in the face of a future that looks complex and uncertain, no… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
The Bible is a collection of writings by lots of different people written over maybe a thousand years, from a number of… — John Goldingay Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The spirit of the whites was really devilish; they seemed determined to drive the Indians to the wall, not one had spoken… — Daniel Webster Jones Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back,… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I'm connected with a lot of different paranormal groups out there worldwide, a lot of different spiritual people. My networking over the… — John Zaffis Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
“To insist that we all view Scripture alike, or that a particular interpretation of a particular passage be enforced somehow, can easily… — Alden Thompson Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, to be sure, we are more “comprehensive.” In particular, we pay more attention to the body. It may even be that… — Jean Déchanet Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“We are all the spirit sons and daughters of a loving God who is our Father. We are part of His family.… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue,… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I think what a lot of people forget is that a lot of the music in the '60s and the '70s was… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“The world's Redeemer was treated as we deserve to be treated, in order that we might be treated as he deserved to… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally,… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
