“Even though the god in all these religions is basically the same, each regards the way chosen by the others as reprehensible,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“I looked at all the caged animals. . . . . . . the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their… — Jim Willis Copy Share Image
“To reach this growing post-Christendom society in the West will obviously take more than what we ordinarily call an evangelistic church; it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“To live in high spirits but not recklessly, to be lighthearted without swaggering or rampaging, to show trust and truthfulness but not… — David Nyberg Copy Share Image
My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“So we would say in yoga that the subtle precedes the gross, or spirit precedes matter. But yoga says we must deal… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“The point is not rigid legalism. The point is the spirit of the communication—understandable only because Moses was intimate with God (forty… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit.… — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I have always envied the Tibetans their simple faith, for all my life I have been a seeker. Though I learned, while… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“Hence a bolder techno-religion seeks to sever the humanist umbilical cord altogether. It foresees a world that does not revolve around the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw brightness… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All loves have much in common, and any one will offer a useful, if not painless, education in the limitations and possibilities… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“Religion searches for reason, and never finds purpose. They think the purpose is to have better reasons. The people are blind, and… — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
“I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you noticed that men struggle every day to correct the defects of my work? What is a plane or a diving… — Jose Maria Ferreira Borges de Castro Copy Share Image
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very important, because without it there's no mutual component to your relationship,… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I don't have a religion,because I have TRUTH,I will not follow their many ways,I'm held by my ROOT.TRUTH is TRUTH, and IS… — RW Copy Share Image
“The pilgrimage of Italy, which I now accomplished, had long been the object of my curious devotion. The passage of Mount Cenis,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The view implicit in my education was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
