It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“The real poison, corrupting the soul and killing the spirit, was the consciousness of guilt and the fear of death.” — Dr. Henry Morris Copy Share Image
“The only thing you can grasp without damaging your soul is My hand. Ask My Spirit within you to order your day… — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
“Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When I began my pilgrimage I left the Los Angeles area without a cent, having faith that God would provide me with… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, “[God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“There’s no doubt, though, that fighting the good fight of faith takes energy! But then so do selfpity, anger, unforgiveness, and self-loathing.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Many confess to a lack of a deep spiritual life, and many prayers for its deepening are made. Yet there is often… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
The bible is not just a book, I realized. it's a living, breathing entity. the stories didn't just happen anywhere. they happened… — Jerome Roldan Copy Share Image
[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
“Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to… — Michael Hollingworth Copy Share Image
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
“Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Baptism has always been a compound act absorbing cultural patterns into itself: it has taken on definite shape in various cultures, shaping… — Adian Kavangh Copy Share Image
“I know that when we get out of our own way and let the spirit of love and hope shine through we… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
“He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“unless we recognize the radical nature of Christianity, which means shedding the imperatives of the secular world and taking with extreme seriousness… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit:… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“One contradiction of the human heart is this: God refuses to see any one person as unique in his or her relationship… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you? — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
“Don't blame god for all the bad things in your life and also don't give him credit for the good things either.” — Perel Lee Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image