In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There is no divinity achieved unless the individual mind submits itself to a mind supposed supreme. The Bible in its simplest form… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
“When a minister, a physician and a religious preceptor; these three use pleasing words from fear or hope of reward, the result… — Tulsidas Copy Share Image
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
“Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about… — Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The tears in my pus-filled eyes became a thousand little crystals of ever color. Like stained-glass windows, I thought. God is with… — Henri Charriere Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A very small percentage of those in the church stand behind a pulpit or sport certain kinds of identifiable clothing. The actual… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The value of a human being depends on the quality of information held in his or her brain. Depending on whether that… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Spiritual connection and engagement is not built on compliance, it’s the product of love, belonging, and vulnerability.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For those people whose association is harmful to the Self (kusangi), there is no better respectful fear (taap) than that of satsang… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“The foundation for a happy and successful life is made up of equal parts of honesty, hope, integrity, love, loyalty and faith… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Hope is the picture painted by Gods Word on the screen of your heart, and faith gives substance to it or brings… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the science of first principles, those which before being considered empirically or formally, are uncertain” — Frederico Rochaferreira Copy Share Image
Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Our hero status is not dependant on our human might or power or even our human spirit; it comes from the power… — Lisa Bevere Copy Share Image
I have no problem with anybody who wants to bear public witness to their religion, but I don't think they can do… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
“Evelyn Uyemura, an English professor and poet, sometimes likes to say: 'We do not read the Bible the way it is; we… — Robin Allinson Parry Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
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