“These were children. Gerry was their priest. Who could disagree that these children were not justified in trusting their priest? Nobody!” — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty; it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“It behooves us to think of what may happen to the spirit of the child who is condemned to grow in conditions… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If I should ever have children I will tell them what religion they are so they can start learning about it at… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, said Paul, if they really have accepted Christ by faith, they have accepted the way of Christ and the… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Their Christian walk was such that it convinced even their most bitter foes of the sincerity and wholeheartedness of their faith and… — Willem Teellinck Copy Share Image
Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“When we say, "God is love," we are saying something very great and true. But it would be senseless to grasp this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Important safety tip with most of the spiritual world: if you ignore it, it has less power. This does not work with… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story… — John Granger Copy Share Image
I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
“When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.” — Olabisi Obideyi Copy Share Image
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't live alone. He had Peter, John, and James around him. There were the Twelve and the other disciples. They formed… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“The Lord doesn't love us for what we are or who we are; He loves us, because He can't help it." -… — Maureen Lang Copy Share Image
It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Mojo” is, “That positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside” — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
