Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
“The good news, as Jesus proclaims it, is not just an evacuation plan to rescue people from earth or the sufferings of… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The work of cultivating experiences called "peak experiences" or "mystic moments" or "breakthroughs" until they become more accessible is part of the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
God has done so much in my life, and my desire is to help others who are hurting to receive His love… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Religion contributes little more to society than to inconvenience the general public with a succession of pointless annual celebrations, and to subject… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the… — Charles Magaiza Copy Share Image
When every court was saying 'no,' I believe God was still saying yes. I had to somehow find that faith and reach… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“we spend a lot of our time navel gazing. We talk about church decline, and whether or not to sell our buildings,… — Emily C. Heath Copy Share Image
“One should learn to know one’s own Self. And if one does not know that, then he should know dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’. We are people like you and me, who share our language, religion… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Or are we?” Langdon intoned overhead. “We consider ourselves modern rational individuals, and yet our species’ most widespread religion includes a whole… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined in the annals of romantic Spain, the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“Today, most believers are segregated and isolated in their church or in their home. If believers accept Paul's directive to seek out… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
“Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All the various types of teachings and spiritual paths are related to the different capacities of understanding that different individuals have. There… — Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
“But by the end of the first century there is evidence to suggest that his surviving correspondence began to be collected into… — Philip W. Comfort Copy Share Image
“Language was critically important to the religious transition. The rise of Islam meant not just the eclipse of Christianity but the near… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Though churches may lose political influence under Christian states or in predominantly Christian societies, though they might be secularized, they do not… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
I don't believe my interpretation's inerrant. I don't believe anybody else's interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“A Lutheran church in Nebraska is typically a place where any mad passion for Christ is politely concealed. Men and women recite… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
“Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?" The monk nodded solemnly. "And that society… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it… — Doug Batchelor Copy Share Image
“He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — R. Bosworth Smith Copy Share Image
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“ 'Are our gods better than Olaf's god?' Alfdis laughed. 'That's a silly question. Gods are gods. Our gods have been with… — James Erich Copy Share Image
“Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. “Why do bad things happen to good people?” we might ask—the… — Tim Chaddick Copy Share Image