The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel. — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.” — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the… — Armin Mohler Copy Share Image
“The Church is a place where human beings have the conviction to patiently seek the truth together, in a shared life of… — Thomas Joseph White Copy Share Image
“The Ohlones seem to have lived at a time and in a spiritual place before the imagination was cast away and isolated… — Malcolm Margolin Copy Share Image
“In the Gospels the emphasis is on the death of Christ. In the Epistles the emphasis is upon the resurrection of Christ.… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“It was actually in the Atlantic West that we first witnessed the paradox of religious fundamentalism: that it reflects the weakening of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“You can finish reading the letters in the Bible, but, we can't stop getting inspirations from it at different times.” — Daniel I. OWOEYE Copy Share Image
What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him… — J. Golden Kimball Copy Share Image
If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“What which does not destroy you...makes you a hella of a lot smarter. All very necessary to take you to a new… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith "Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c)… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The seed of error that took root during the fourth and fifth centuries blossomed into the Roman Catholic Church—a perversion of biblical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum. — John Stott Copy Share Image
“If you want to overcome the spirit of slander, blame not the person who falls, but the demon that prompted them to… — St. John Climicus Copy Share Image
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so… — Jennifer Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full… — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
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