“When you genuinely pursue victory, you will find it. With passion and purpose, let your spirit be aligned with it.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. — Barbara Howar Copy Share Image
This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Christ paints the Father in the most beautiful of hues! According to Jesus, He is a God who is delighted at the… — Jeff Turner Copy Share Image
“Religion is the record of spiritual events. Through the repetition of past occurrences religion can give us a close approximation of the… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other...… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
“Even if you don’t believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“The effort to separate ourselves whether by race, creed, color, religion, or status is as costly to the separator as to those… — Melba Pattillo Beals Copy Share Image
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“The spirit of Italy has taken over my soul. I'm relaxed, happy, warm. It's as if i'm part of the earth, not… — Mary Hogan Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Religious freedom is a proud founding principle of America and ethnic bigotry flies in the face of American principles of liberty and… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
“An individual tends to absorb the surrounding spirit and to radiate the acquired lifestyle and worldview to anyone around, not just to… — Andrei Kolmogorov Copy Share Image
God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
We won't be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind… — Kelli McCracken Copy Share Image
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