God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the… — David Kim Copy Share Image
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that… — Tom Flynn Copy Share Image
“if he had said otherwise. To admit that a thermonuclear catastrophe would be the end of civilization and of the biosphere would… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches.… — Pedro Sanchez Copy Share Image
The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
“enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from...from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all.… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Pundits and politicians have rightly questioned whether conservatism can successfully appeal to secular Americans. It is not a certainty, however, that conservatism… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
You Can Nod Ya Head To This Like Its Only A Track, But When The Bullets Hit Ya Ass Im Like, Its… — Styles P Copy Share Image
“Real Purusharth (spiritual effort to progress as the Self) actually happens when one becomes impartial towards his own self.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything… — Culbert Olson Copy Share Image
The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
“My heart is properly cultivated ... and is not left to wither under the burden of cold erudition, and my religious feelings… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.” — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Catherine Marshall writes, “Resignation is barren of faith in the love of God…. Resignation lies down quietly in the dust of a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Though the evidence from Scripture for editing and compiling is obvious and irrefutable, our failure to deal with it bit by bit… — Alden Thompson Copy Share Image
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating… — Dr. Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of… — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image