“If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That was one of the inherent flaws of faith. Belief without knowing. But worse yet: belief without action. It could be good… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
“While misperceptions and fears rooted in pride are not the responsibility of the person making an online comment or writing a public… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“-Prayer In My Life- Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance and mercy to… — Walter Elias Disney Copy Share Image
“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things,… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“This [divine authority] must be our great and singular message to the world. We do not offer it with boasting. We testify… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Jesus does not encourage Jews to walk a second mile in order to build up merit in heaven, or to be pious,… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Whosoever drinks of this water (water of the world) shall thirst again (presents one of the most simple, common, yet at the… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
“Seymour once said to me — in a crosstown bus, of all places — that all legitimate religious study must lead to… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am “religious.” I go to church only occasionally—like a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts – the non-religious included – is that religious faith is especially vulnerable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“1. We read or hear God’s Word. 2. We choose to receive it, thereby inhaling it like a fresh breath of faith.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Most spiritual people are so obsessed with their own ideas about what spirituality is supposed to be that they completely ignore and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“The division in human religion has always been between those who see the fall of man as a fall into freedom and… — R. Joseph Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“There is a single truth, it filters through different stories and languages because people come from different cultures and speak different languages.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“Illusion is an intellectual knowledge (buddhijanya). Intellectual knowledge is vikalpi (uncertain, with wrong belief of the self). Whereas, the Real Knowledge (Gnan)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If we compare the 2014-genocide to the Armenian genocide and the Anfal genocide, we will find that, whether religious or secular, the… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“Successful heretics create their own religions…You can recognize the need for faith in your idea, you can find the tribe you need… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“But isn’t the whole idea of sanctification the fact that we’re not really there yet? That we’re still growing and becoming? Still… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If we want hell, if we want heaven, they are ours. That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“So often we think it is our job to push people, and it really is a lack of faith that the Spirit… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Why does our world feel so very crazy? Why do mental and emotional illnesses emerge more rapidly than we can educate psychiatrists,… — Albert J. LaChance Copy Share Image
There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is… — Osho Copy Share Image
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“A boy said,“Everybody is my friend.”Beloved said,“No, not everybody can be your friend.” Boy said, “Each one of them is gifted to… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“as architect of choosing... choose. to. live. awakened. entirely. wholly. wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative, thriving. this is not a hoped-for… — LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier Copy Share Image
“From this foundation of spirituality, three other significant patterns emerged as being essential to resilience: Cultivating hope Practicing critical awareness Letting go… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
My spiritual connection with nature is basically what we all have - you transcend yourself. It's what happens when you see a… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
“If the members of the Church would search their scriptures more intensely in the spirit of humility and prayer, disputations would cease… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image