Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the… — Alfred Billings Street Copy Share Image
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
If we lift ourselves out of spiritual ignorance, we can find ourselves as a new creature spawned in and from FREE WILL… — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
“There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith; if I am tempted, make me strong to resist; if I should miss… — Ronie Kendig Copy Share Image
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape… — Derek Acorah Copy Share Image
I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us,… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
I have never had anything to do with the kind of fashion that is influenced by the press or identified with the… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the… — Gregory Clark Copy Share Image
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Because sex, drugs, and religion all hinge on the same kind of simple neurochemical events: addictive, euphoric, exhilirating - and all, equally,… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“To affirm the sufficiency of Scripture is not to suggest that the Bible tells us everything we want to know about everything,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism,… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
“I’m beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
