He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It is only fair to add that you should be undecided about spiritual causes too. By this I mean that you can’t… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Baptism has for its general effect the regeneration of the soul, 1 and hence belongs to the " Sacraments of the dead."… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My spirituality is severely challenged when I meet the most ignorant, evil and egotistical individuals in the world. It's even worse when… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Perseverance. It's his favorite word. We've spent more than one session defining it. It's a guarentee. You'll get what you want, eventually.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing)… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have implicit faith in Sun Yat-sen, not because I am his blind follower, but because he really arouses the deepest respect… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Music is always a healer, music's never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you cant truly… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
“Now the God of peace sanctify you perfect (perfectos); and may your spirit, and soul, and body be preserved whole without complaint… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“That image of Joan of Arc burning up in a fire burned inside me like a new religion. Her face skyward. Her… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
“With the decline of clerical power in the eighteenth century, a new kind of mentor emerged to fill the vacuum and capture… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Self-Esteem Creates Natural Highs. Knowing That You're Lovable Helps You To Love More. Knowing That You're Important Helps You To Make A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...for a piece of famous fluffiness that doesn't just pretend about what real lives can be like, but moves on into one… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“The Infinite discloses itself, as much of itself as our finite minds can comprehend, by building the universal grammars of language and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of errors,the truth is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Because the Holy Spirit is received by faith, our hearts are now renewed, and so put on new affections, so that they… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly,… — Marguerite Porete Copy Share Image
“The Bible isn’t really at all good at being an instruction manual. It’s good at leading us into a tangle of wild… — Jana Riess Copy Share Image
“As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s religion even a little bit.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image