“After situating herself on a huge flat-sided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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“Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief.… — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
“It was a long year. I lovingly refer to it on my blog as the 2007 Breakdown Spiritual Awakening. It felt like… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can? I suspect that neither the Cambridge nor… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Become Amish? If you admire our faith, strengthen yours. If you admire our sense of commitment, deepen yours. If you admire our… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
“The essence of its failure was that it could not sustain unity. In its early stages its citizens, both patrician and plebeian,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Blind adherence to contextualization alters our preaching in at least three ways, and none of them is for the better. First, it… — David R. Helm Copy Share Image
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“Jesus offered a single incentive to follow him; it was woven into all he said and did. Here is how I would… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement.… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Scripture really seems to be getting at something here, something about orienting our lives around becoming lifelong learners of Jesus. It is… — Mike Breen Copy Share Image
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Seventh Step of The Ladder of Divine Ascent, St. John of Sinai says that we shall not… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
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Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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