“It is widely unknown, but nonetheless true that Catholicism fervently promotes the 'spiritual disciplines' whereas Protestantism has largely neglected them altogether. Does… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“He was weary. Used up. He had been weary for months, for more than a year. In that weariness, in the exhaustion… — Jennifer Roberson Copy Share Image
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I just wanted to say something about him, to shoot his spirit out over the airwaves and see what it will do.… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
“I have said before that one of these days, someone will read the Bible for the first time, believe it, and act… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Christianity has always been against the flow of culture and continues to call us in the opposite direction of the way the… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, Let's… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be… — Catherine Keller Copy Share Image
“I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Of late there has been a new spirit manifested in the youth which is growing up with the depression. This spirit is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“if the patient knows that the woman with the absurd hat is a fanatical bridge-player or the man with squeaky boots a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics,… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The gospel isn’t just enough to justify the ungodly; it’s enough to regenerate and sanctify the ungodly. However, only because (in the… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“I mean those who cling to their own egos in their penances and external devotions, which such people regard as being of… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“anybody that frontier spirit and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. But he also recognized that government investments in things like railroads… — David Blum Copy Share Image
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions,… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say,… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
“Earth is currently transitioning into the Fourth Dimension. The climax of the upcoming Ascension will be felt towards the end of 2012… — Sufian Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“Both Christ and Scripture, says the Second Vatican Council, are given "for the sake of our salvation" (Dei Verbum 11), and both… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
“The key to the Hercules Method is to focus your mind, body and spirit towards one goal. By bringing all three into… — Justin Jordan Copy Share Image
A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business.… — Gene Garman Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today,… — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
