“One example is the familiar parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), which in some ways might be better called the parable… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“Faith?” The word popped out before I could think about it. “Faith in what? A higher power? The gods? The universe?” My… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“Kneeling at the foot of the cross, Christians have reached the highest place they can attain. The cross is the Sermon on… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
American tohught re: spiritual evolutionI don't think we can say it's actually so new but I think evolutionary evolution American style is… — Julia Copy Share Image
“I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
“Think and mull and ponder and chew until you see God the way they see God—namely, as precious and valuable and beautiful… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I am a Christian, I am a believer, and I know had I not been a person of faith, I couldn't be… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
“Memories like shrapnel, forever embedded, infected by what had come later…words of love and undying devotion, times of sublime happiness, lies upon… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? After that meeting the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance … Christian steadfastness,… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile, even in spite of all my desire, I could never imagine to myself that there is no future life and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion.… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
There's no question that a public official of either party can take it too far, and it's up to the candidate to… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Faith has not increased in the world, nor has righteousness, nor obedience to God. What the world needs today is to draw… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to… — John Edwards Copy Share Image
