“Seen theologically, then, walking is an act of faith. Walking is, after all, interrupted falling.We see, we listen, we speak, and we… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The hour or so I spent with the ninety-year-old David Attenborough was one of the most beatific of my life. An oddly… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
“Many people talk of the “god-shaped void” in their lives that had been waiting to be filled by faith. Always in born-again… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“You want religion?” Finn pushed back a lock of my hair. “Then I’ll get on my knees and worship you for the… — T.M. Frazier Copy Share Image
“Take the great bow of the sacred scriptures, Place on it the arrow of devotion; Then draw the bowstring of meditation And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“When a puppy reaches maturity is becomes a dog; when ice melts it is called water; when twelve months have been used… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other… — Alfred William Howitt Copy Share Image
“Authentic spiritual friendships: Most of what we know about ourselves, truth or falsehood, has been reflected back to us from others. It… — R. Thomas Ashbrook Copy Share Image
I'm never surprised when there's dark stuff in the church because the church is made up of people and people are dark,… — Griff Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
“Spirituality doesn’t look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“That’s good,” said Jacquel. “So, yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is… — Albert Einstein The World As I See It Copy Share Image
When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
“I find it very worrying that we don’t talk about nature anymore. We talk about natural resources as if everything had a… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
“As the stone which has been kicked by generations of clowns may come by curious little links of effect under the eyes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“The Savior's message was essential to our salvation, but his personal exposition of it was not. President J. Reuben Clark Jr. gave… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists. A religion that recognises the legitimacy of other faiths implies… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image