I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“The key to understnading masculinity is Jesus Christ. Jesus was tough with religious blockheads, false teachers, the proud, and bullies. Jesus was… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“I was asked by a concerned church-goer: "Is your relationship with God okay?" and I answered "My relationship with God is far… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord.… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Our problem in evangelism is not that we don’t have enough information—it is that we don’t know how to be ourselves. We… — Rebecca Manley Pippert Copy Share Image
Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world.… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“You know, the thing that makes the Bible the Bible is the fact that somebody had an interview with God! Somebody heard… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
“How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see.… — donal ryan Copy Share Image
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success,"… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
“We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific,… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is,… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness.… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Lack of Faith" Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild… — Anna Kamieńska Copy Share Image
“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Religion sees death as a journey to a surreal paradise. I see death as the end of all good and evil. The… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Cultivating Authenticity: Letting Go of What People Think Cultivating Self-Compassion: Letting Go of Perfectionism Cultivating a Resilient Spirit: Letting Go of Numbing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the early scholars of Islam, there would have been no conflict between religion and science. The early thinkers were quite clear… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“I mean, I ignore plenty of stuff, like school spirit days and the dirty looks I get from the Detentionheads while I… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship!' Without the religion, without the archaic and flawed holy texts, there wouldn’t be anything for… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“the ability of a religious or business leader to inspire, motivate, generate interest, capture attention, depends critically on metaphor. if you actually… — John Grinder Copy Share Image
“You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which is given to you,… — Carlo Michelstaedter Copy Share Image
“Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important,… — Kate Kerrigan Copy Share Image
We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Once you understand how first-century Jewish covenant theology actually works, you will see that law-court language, 'participation' language, and a great deal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image