“You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“The secular progressive movement in America has been successful in removing all vestiges of faith in God from the public square. The… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?" "As much as is possible," Sazed said. "Their prayers, their beliefs, their… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I've learned much from the land of many gods and many ways to worship. From Buddhism the power to begin to manage… — Sarah Macdonald Copy Share Image
“By the time Sami entered high school Mustafa had grudgingly accepted that the boy needed to know something of the patriarchs. For… — Robin Yassin-Kassab Copy Share Image
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper… — The Ultimate Warrior Copy Share Image
There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
VALUE OF FRIENDS Give me kind friends, true friends in need, Who don no idle, winning wiles, And who will be true… — Bhaboo Copy Share Image
Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies;… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“I need to be able to come to God differently than my father does. I need to be able to express faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“An interest in souls divorced from an interest in Scripture leaves us without a text that shapes these souls. In the same… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Part of the scandal of American Christianity is that statistically the U.S. is the most Christian country in the world, and yet… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“The sieges of Gvozdansko (1578) and Alamo (1836) tell the true stories of the small bands of the heroes who stood against… — Vinko Vrbanic Copy Share Image
“Let's consider the Bible with fresh eyes without the distorted lens of historical Christianity. Let's pray that the readers of this book… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If He ever did come back, if He ever dared to show His face, or his Glyph, or whatever in the Garden… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors,… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Illness itself can make you angry, enraged, furious, and it made me angry, enraged, and furious. I don't think it brought me… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“My introduction to medicinal plants transformed my health and my life, and enhanced and expanded my spiritual practice by connecting me deeply… — Robin Rose Bennett Copy Share Image
“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“we reduce discipleship to a canned program, and so many in the church end up sidelined in a spectator mentality that delegates… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event.… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
I do believe there's a place for anger in spiritual life. Just as a mother protects a child, as parents protect offspring… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image