“A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty… — William James Copy Share Image
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Strive to engage in activities that require constant self-development. Nurture and develop the physical body, but also our spiritual nature. We exist… — Janet M. Tavakoli Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“It was like a religious conversion for me. In fact, it’s kind of like sex—one of those things that everyone thinks they… — Judith Ryan Hendricks Copy Share Image
“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Fathers of the Republic, I believe, were far cleverer fellows than they are commonly represented to be, even in the schoolbooks.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I let go of the notion that the Bible is a divine product. I learned that it is a human cultural product,… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“The issue here revolves around the "right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different.… — Gerald O. West Copy Share Image
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
“We operate under the notion that America actually belongs to us Christians, and that we belong to it. We believe that the… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures…For example, assuming the… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Holy spirits, you walk up there in the light, on soft earth. Shining god-like breezes touch upon you gently, as a woman's… — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Most of us have never really understood that Christianity is not a self-help religion meant to enable moral people to become more… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping… — Gerald Priestland Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Americans have seen this before. In June 2008, then Senator Barack Obama assured everyone, “I have said consistently that I believe that… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“What the nation needs is a prophetic voice. But even our churches have been corrupted by the culture—turned into trendy nightclubs where… — Todd Starnes Copy Share Image
We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. Where justice is… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables the person to pay attention to… — Jeannette A. Bakke Copy Share Image
“Apostolic ministry is not just about founding new churches and movements; it is as much about the renewal of existing organizations, that… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
