Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan. Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much… — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I believe we can all work to foster a spirit of compassion, understanding, and awareness within… — Kenny Stills Copy Share Image
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“It is easy to find religion; it is salvation most seek. After committing to a life of Christ, salvation is lost in… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to… — David Thibodeau Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
My music timeless mind by barbaric and relentless lyric poetic dying for justice in a time that's historic your mindless brain washed… — Jonathan Croft Copy Share Image
“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Linden was beautiful in spirit and in fact. Her wish, she told her daughter, was to be a beautiful woman and… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
“True religion, according to Romans, is about faith, hope, love; about the cross of Christ, and the love of God. It is… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.The imagination, give it… — Henry David Thoreau (1817â1862 Copy Share Image
“Day 247 It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus” — Deena B. Chopra Copy Share Image
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Think of it this way, Mara. We don’t have the power to make the sun rise, but we can choose to be… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
“I can't imagine pressing on relentlessly through day and night with mind, body, spirit in a single state, can't imagine denying myself… — Jennifer Ackerman Copy Share Image
The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
“When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common.… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for. — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as… — H.W. Charles Copy Share Image
... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
