The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called. — Martyn Copy Share Image
“Popular culture is a wonderful buffet to dine at. But it's easy to overeat.” — Benyamin Cohen Copy Share Image
“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.” — Paul Leicester Ford Copy Share Image
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We have not come [here] for fame; we have come [here] for the salvation of others.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate… — Wale Copy Share Image
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies, and become master of the whole animal creation: but does… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Intentionally or involuntarily, your earthly and spiritual fathers will lead you the perfect Father. You might not recognize it, but even when… — Carlos A. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“But Jesus is talking about God becoming king in order to explain the things he himself is doing. He isn’t pointing away… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“Everybody, whether they are religious or not, implicitly knows that religion is costly, counterfactual, and even counterintuitive. The more one accepts what… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image