Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things. — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Faith and belief are one of strongest forces that most aware of but know how to wield not...and often miss-used. — Rizzi Vicci Copy Share Image
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue? — John Denver Copy Share Image
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the… — Jessica Maria Tuccelli Copy Share Image
I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet to be a… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
“She wondered what it said about her spiritual fitness that her clearest messages from the Almighty seemed to come from the alternative… — Julia Spencer-Fleming Copy Share Image
“John Calvin, Comment on 2 Cor. 5:20 This is why Paul upholds the teaching of the gospel in such a forceful way… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Certainly one of our God-given privileges is the right to choose what our attitude will be in any given set of circumstances.… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral.… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Religion is important for humanity, but it should evolve with humanity. The first priority is to establish and develop the principle of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Critical comments by students should be taken in a friendly spirit,” he said. “Accumulation of material should not stifle the student’s independence.”… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. — Mary Martha Sherwood Copy Share Image
“And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. – John 19:30” — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My faith is everything. It's the bedrock, the foundation and the core of who I am. — Maria Taylor Copy Share Image
You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion. — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
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