And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program. — Rob Campbell Copy Share Image
The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“It was not Orlando who spoke, but the spirit of the age. But whichever it was, nobody answered it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that God might have ordained to preach the Gospel directly to man through dreams, visions and revelations. But as… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
“All religions are equal and good, if only the people that practice them are honest people; and if Turks and heathens came… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins,… — Joseph Smith Copy Share Image
“You will not be able rationally to read the Gospel and regard the Crucifixion as an afterthought or an anti-climax or an… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
