That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby -… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
“I don’t know,” [my father] said, after clearing his throat. “But I know that he loves you.” . . . Twenty years… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Of course, we in the West like to pat ourselves on the back and say we're more tolerant, and we are--but tolerance… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
“In an ideal world, both experifaith and storyfaith would provide spiritual aspirants of all faiths with guidance. Storyfaith would preserve tradition and… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature… This conquering of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“One has to make do with what time one has. I was conscious that my task was of another kind: that I… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Children, if we can do archana of the 1000 Names of the Divine Mother daily with devotion, we will grow spiritually. There… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“But she missed simple things, parents' birthdays, a rug underfoot, nights when she didn't have to sleep in a zipped bag. She… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Self-denial is the birth pang of spiritual joy. No woman seeks birth pangs, but she willingly endures them for the pleasure of… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
“A scribe’s job is to transcribe what he is instructed to write down. Just as God directed and inspired the authors of… — Beau Jason McGlynn Copy Share Image
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
“The Bible was written with the assumption that we are the rational and spiritual beings God made us to be, giving us… — Andreas Köstenberger Copy Share Image
Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
“They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual, from which they… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
“So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of… — James Henley Thornwell Copy Share Image
I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Religion reminds me of a lace condom. While lovingly crafted, it’s not designed for pleasure; unless inflated with fervour, it collapses; one… — Lowestoft Thellow Copy Share Image
![“I don’t know,” [my father] said, after clearing his throat. “But I know that he loves you.” . . . Twenty years later, I’m convinced it is the most important thing my father ever told me. . . . I used to think that the measure of true faith is certainty. Doubt, ambiguity, nuance, uncertainty…” quote by Rachel Held Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/rachel-held-evans-2876_certainty_i-don-t-know-my-father-said-after-cleari_2734372.jpg)
![“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.” quote by Jon Krakauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/jon-krakauer-1557_crime_i-lorna-craig-would-say-that-teaching-a_1061953.jpg)
![“The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be…” quote by Jean Vanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08b/jean-vanier-3367_clarity_the-people-with-the-best-sense-of-what-i_303228.jpg)
