“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Only he shall visit the mosques of Allah who believes in Allah and the latter day, and keeps up prayer and pays… — Quran Copy Share Image
“The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined; more strict than any of which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We have talked about the manner and mode of preaching, but contextualization also has much to do with the content. A sermon… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“This is the perfect time to discuss the common deception that, “Everything God does must be found in Scripture.” I understand the… — Brian Guerin Copy Share Image
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding.… — Dean M. Davies Copy Share Image
Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
“We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The first task of discernment, then, is not a closing off but an opening up, what we might call responsive discernment. If… — Steven R. Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Beginning with the Psalms and continuing with Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews, Luther dug into Scripture, and it was these years of study,… — Michelle DeRusha Copy Share Image
“It is not that someday Jesus will do this, that, and the other thing, and then the Kingdom will come. It is… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the… — Steven James Copy Share Image
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“She was painfully shy, but physically she was brave to a surprising degree. She loved few persons, but those few with a… — Eva Hope Copy Share Image
Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Joseph Campbell, the renowned scholar of religion and mythology, eloquently summed up, “This is it. This is Eden. When you see the… — John C. Robinson Copy Share Image
Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world -… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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