“What a glorious Savior he is! Once again consider Christ in his entire identity, life, and work. In his birth, he is… — Stephen J. Wellum Copy Share Image
“Those who think that the wisest way to groom a child for spiritual maturity is to isolate him from the evil, corrupted… — Tim Kimmel Copy Share Image
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the… — Stephen L. Richards Copy Share Image
“The Self is the only thing that is worth knowing. Nothing else in this world is worth knowing. The other things which… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is very important to develop a relationship with Jesus. It is amazing to think that because He saw we were suffering… — Esther Smith Copy Share Image
God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“While we must continue to align ourselves in denominations that share our theological distinctives, at the local level our bias should be… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong… — Eca De Queiroz Copy Share Image
Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“On the 30th of March, 1820—some months after this strange religious revolution—the first party of Christian missionaries arrived at the islands from… — King David Kalakaua Copy Share Image
“When you are little, your parents seem all-powerful, all-knowing….you have complete faith in them. I think that is what Jesus meant when… — Pandra Selivanov Copy Share Image
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church… — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friendship with God is possible. Silence manifests… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“Count it all joy, my brothers,when you meet trials of various kinds,for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a… — E. M. Bounds Copy Share Image
“There is something that assaults God even more directly. It is the subtle sense that grows in us, usually unconsciously, that the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“I learned I didn't matter from the very same place that lifted me up, the place I'd found my center and voice:… — Patrisse Khan-Cullors Copy Share Image
“With respect to what are called denominations of religion, if every one is left to judge of its own religion, there is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“There's a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.… — Mesnevi Copy Share Image
“Tertullian presents the Christian assemblies in terms that non-Christian readers would recognize; he attempts to establish common ground. But Tertullian is also… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
I do believe my personal spirituality, which spirituality itself I don't really equate to anything more than my personal connection with nature… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
“A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
“I have been to many religious services over the years. Each one I go to only reinforces my general impression that religions… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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