“Consider these questions: Did Jesus ever suggest by word of example that we should aspire to acquire, let alone take over, the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“All of it pointed to a force stronger than the anxious formulas of religion: a radically inclusive love that accompanied people in… — Sara Miles Copy Share Image
I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Misplaced attachment to what cannot satiate the soul is not an error exclusive to addicts, but the common condition of mankind. It… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms… — Kevin W. Pearson Copy Share Image
“As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
“Seeing Islam as a religion is less accurate than viewing it as an ideology committed to installing the most totalitarian regime imaginable.… — Peter Mcloughlin Copy Share Image
“Your parents must feel terrible." "Not really. Dad says all things work together for the good of the Kingdom." If there was… — David James Poissant Copy Share Image
“They say that it is the fear of death and of what comes after death that makes men turn to religion as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the Resurrection continues to be a pivotal issue, a pivotal question for people. I think a lot of other issues… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“The church doesn’t exist to satisfy the religious tastes of its members. Nor does it exist for institutional self-preservation. Nor does it… — Kelly Bean Copy Share Image
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“Many people profess a belief in the existence of a spiritual realm, often aligning with their religious training or background. (Recent surveys… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Our world is so complex that we take for granted engineering processes that would dwarf any of the ancient Seven Wonders of… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It… — James K. Baxter Copy Share Image
I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“For half a century now, a new consciousness has been entering the human world, a new awareness that can only be called… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The gospel news is of an all-or-nothing venture undertaken by our blessing God. He pursued us all the way into the far… — Gerrit Dawson Copy Share Image
The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit acts mystically through the spiritual father, and then when you go out from your spiritual father, the soul feels… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Good gracious, she could have remained faithful to him in spirit while she was being unfaithful to him in the flesh. That… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“By the time Genghis Khan arrived to give his newest subjects their religious freedom, after first brutalizing them into submission, Darjmainia had… — Tony McMillen Copy Share Image
“A preacher ought to be good-looking. For, if we are properly to understand his worthy sentiments, we must keep our eyes on… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing.… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“There are two Paths to the Innermost: the Way of the Mystic, which is the way of devotion and meditation, a solitary… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
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