This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of… — John Dunning Copy Share Image
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“If you want to accurately judge the spiritual level of any human being, count the number of religions that he is capable… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“You they served me up the sun and the moon, beautiful works of Yours, but works of Yours all the same and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Radically new spiritual movements are cropping up, notably the “atheist” practice of Syntheism. And musicians are creating stranger and stranger electrical sounds… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“In a civilization that glorifies success and happiness and is blind to the sufferings of others, people’s eyes can be opened to… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
“She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church,… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In a certain sense the Holocaust can be seen as an expression of an almost religious fanaticism, and at the same time… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You don’t believe in any god at all?’ ‘Oh, I believe in them. I just think they are rotten. All of them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don’t come back from. Say ye… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Definite atonement is beautiful because it tells the story of the Warrior-Son who comes to earth to slay his enemy and rescue… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
“Most of what's known about religious practices in pre-Hispanic Mexico has come to us through a Catholic parish priest named Hernando Ruiz… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image