“admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I'd make stuff up, like, 'I heard that when Jesus built furniture he never used glue in the joints, that he'd touch… — Scott Carrier Copy Share Image
"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself… Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“I gotta see them folks that's gone out on the road. I got a feelin' I got to see them. They gonna… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy spirit, such a place as would somehow, for diversion… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“if people left our services saying, “What an awesome choir” or “That's a great church,” then we have failed in our mission.… — Mike Harland Copy Share Image
Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The church is a home for all to come together, regardless of the depth or the height of our testimony. I know… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art.… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“God loves you and wants you to be a success, so he’s only giving you small bites, building your faith until you’re… — John Michael Hileman Copy Share Image
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like people of faith, and I believe the more people who have spirituality, the better the world will be. It's about… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive. — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
