There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The religious Jew is to study Torah for the sake of studying Torah. Torah lishmah. The ingenuity of the edict, I realized… — Judith Shulevitz Copy Share Image
“In his contradictions he was as much an enigma as the country itself: a religious devotee out of spite at the soullessness… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life we can do nothing worthy without repentance, but the Lord has much mercy on us because of our… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“ YOU claim you are blessed , YOU claim you have done all the good things and YOU even boast that YOU… — Giannmaden Copy Share Image
We have this idea in our mind that there's a separation of church and state in America, which I think is a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have great concern, but my concern is probably not what most people would think it would be.My concern is why is… — Paula White Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing that your ministry is how… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“The resurrection does not consist merely of the appearances of Jesus to his disciples after his death. Many think that these appearances… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“A new feeling of dread for the world I live in formed in my stomach. I began to wish the ‘theory’ of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Give me, if you will, prayers; Or let me know dryness, An abudance of devotion, Or if not, then barrenness. In you… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
“Jesus did not go through all His sufferings so we could go to church; He did what He did to atone for… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“Someday I hope you will be able to understand how deeply my devotion runs. I cannot wait until the day it no… — Dark Calling Copy Share Image
I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked. ‘That’s right,’ he shouted back. ‘My… — Nigel Holloway Copy Share Image
“Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
![“the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.” quote by Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/marianne-williamson-90_failure_the-spiritual-meaning-of-every-situation_2536424.jpg)
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