Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Serving” is assisting your fellow man, the how-to, practical way to thrust your life into the spiritual wall to make the tunnel bigger.… — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Mark my words, when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“We can say that, for Merton, religion refers to our deepest reality which lies hidden in our innate propensity for union with… — James Finley Copy Share Image
Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly,… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
As far as the matters of religion are concerned we know for sure that only Islam is the true religion in the… — Zakir Naik Copy Share Image
Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“To the religious spirit … God alone is the cause of all positive effects … [I]t solves … most … questions always… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Contentment maintains control over the spirit and does not allow ungoverned passions and unrestrained emotions to bring discomposure right at the moment… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“We Indians are a stinking corrupt people. Our religion is corrupt and we try to survive by corrupting our gods. It’s in… — Maloy Krishna Dhar Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an 'extra' that a person might grow into after he… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise… — Patricia B. McConnell Copy Share Image
“Part of the irony of religion’s role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday… — Mavis Cheek Copy Share Image
“This reminds me that from woman I received my life. I make my acknowledgements to her con amore. It is a sufficient… — Le Comte Du Bouleau [Pseud Attributed Copy Share Image
“I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
You might get up in the morning and do your devotions and say a few prayers and there you go. You think… — Jeremy Camp Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“God designed the church to be a community of lifelong learners under the earthly guidance of leaders who are teachers at heart.… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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