“I get that. For you, it’s more than following a bunch of rules—no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
True friendship is devotion serving each other identifying one self with others sufferings just forgetting ones own wishes, own priorities and own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inverse paranoia of believing everything is for the greater good helps the human spirit face and welcome lifes turbulent changes cheerfully. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Why? Why use the room as introduction to an apologia? Because the room, though windowless and cold at night, is a hothouse.… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“I knew I lived in a country founded on the murder of the body and the spirit of others. Native American nations… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“But if Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Docetism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“Paull has his own style, which is folksy, not canned. Religion? He's got one. His prophet's Ayn Rand. By Rand's eerie theories… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
“God will not allow us to be overwhelmed by temptation, but with it He will provide a way of escape so that… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular.” — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
I went through a couple of years there just mad at the world. I put my faith in the world and the… — Peyton Hillis Copy Share Image
Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
“To understand Jesus when he stated that he was the way, the truth and the life, one must first recognize his manner… — The Tru Sum Copy Share Image
“Walking by faith does not mean you fold your arms and do nothing. There is a process involved and that is when… — Eric Tayem Tangumonkem Copy Share Image
What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for… — Nannie Helen Burroughs Copy Share Image
Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.” — Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic;… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or… — Malcolm Godwin Copy Share Image
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“The main task of pastoral ministry, according to Paul’s address to the Ephesian elders, is not the quantitative growth of the church,… — Eckhard J. Schnabel Copy Share Image
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
