Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“While religions have historically tried to make us the same, Jesus calls us to be different. If you have ever experienced this,… — Erwin Raphael McManus Copy Share Image
“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now it is a pleasant pastime, a joy and pleasure, to read the Bible and religious books, tracts, and papers, whereby I… — E. E. Byrum Copy Share Image
“he’d read the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, and heard the Upanishads were no different—it was clear the battle for justice was… — Michael Capuzzo Copy Share Image
A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin,… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“We need a new, global spirituality—an organic spirituality that belongs innately to all of us, as the children of earth. A genuine… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
“The common understanding among Muslims, no doubt indoctrinated by Western notions, is that a secular state is a state that is not… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
Prayer does not require a deity or Religion to be a valid form of hope. Prayer is a personal spiritual blessing towards… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We… — Sera Break Copy Share Image
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
“It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Paul says that one weapon in this ongoing fight of faith is the practice of “disciplining” the body. He was not unaware… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In other words, Jesus not only sends the church where he was sent; he sends us in the same way that he… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image
“God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means “anointed or… — Lisa Bevere Copy Share Image
Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“May our joys be defined by the incalculable riches of the gospel. May our thinking be shaped by the liberating truths of… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“At times he forced the conquered people, under the threat of violence, to accept Christianity and submit to baptism. Naturally, many of… — Richard M. Hannula Copy Share Image
“As Atheists, we should not be clamoring for acceptance amongst the religious believers by virtue of trying to be like them with… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation,… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind… A new… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
“I see a huge monster, and his name is Religion, and I am finally brave enough to be angry with him, because… — Mandy Steward Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, everyone who comes to your church needs to be able to put into words what makes… — Scott McConnell Copy Share Image
