“...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Baptism is one of those more effective rites that come in with the new covenant. The fact that baptism takes the place… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life and especially its expression in mystical experience, is not so much a matter of striving for heights of mystical… — Michael Downey Copy Share Image
The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future- certianly none for the Germans. Facism, if… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The encrusted religious structure is not changed by its institutional dependents--they are part of the crust. It is changed by one who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“The Anatomy of Conflict: If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Beyond even any teaching, though, the aspect of spiritual life that is the most profound is the element of grace. Grace is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“This is exactly why the preservation of the world is not a priority for the true Christian. We are not of this… — Curtis A. Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Faith is knowledge within our heart, beyond the reach of proof, is something between us and our God, it is the Communication… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Pioneer social psychologist Leon Festinger made sense of that behavior in his 1950s study, When Prophecy Fails . Festinger and two colleagues… — Gershom Gorenberg Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think… — Yasushi Inoue Copy Share Image
People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
A person can have great gifts, great talents and great experiences given by God; however, we must learn to submit to Gods… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Look at our fathers in the old days, living masterpieces as they are and shining examples of true religion; and see how… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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