“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
The present is all you own. Live, love, enjoy, wish and accomplish. Place no faith in time, the clock may soon be… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“all those roads and ports, spread these belief systems faster. Some seem to have mingled ancient beliefs with Buddhist and Hindu thinking… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It’s sad to say, but not every employee of a church is a Christian, and each quarter I terminate those whose purpose… — Genevieve Woods Copy Share Image
“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I think that if we follow in the path of Christ, and love the world - actually love people, there is no… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I respect religion and all people's ideas of it. I think everyone should be able to do whatever they want to do… — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
“We do not need to reinvent our faith; we need to get back to the basics of Christianity. Every generation of believers… — Winfield Bevins Copy Share Image
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world. — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive,… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I feel we all have a stake in our community as much as we do in our own spirits, and seeking avenues… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that one generally should not try to dissolve disparate creeds into one another, much less into some vague,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist… — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon… — Charles Clayton Morrison Copy Share Image
I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
The innovators' spirit of America still exists. However, there is a narrative in America which goes like - you must go to… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“To get the victory and keep our attitude one of hope, we need to renew our mind to God's promises concerning our… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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