It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of evidence in us against it. The… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I’ve studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out… — Various Copy Share Image
We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“I have a complicated spiritual history. Here's the short version: I was born into a Mass-going Roman Catholic family, but my parents… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by… — R Abindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Further compounding the problem, biblical and theological literacy is at a new low.1 Frankly, many Protestants don’t know what the Bible says,… — Nate Pickowicz Copy Share Image
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
“This does not, therefore, mean 'the gospel reveals justification by faith as the true scheme of salvation, as opposed to Jewish self-help… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
“Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet Solomon in all of his glory was not… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up… — Mea McMahon Copy Share Image
We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
