What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“How many of us are embracing the comforts of suburban America while we turn a deaf ear to inner cities in need… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Roe Deer, when your spirit returns to the Great Earth Mother, thank Her for giving us one of your kind, that we… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist impulse can creep up on a devotee in many ways. Devotion is the quickest path to the divine, but it… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
When you think about how many wars are created through the word religion it's hard to identify with it, or even accept… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
“And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love… — Ilsa Madden-Mills Copy Share Image
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“John Oman warns, “unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God’s message, it is certain to… — Alexander Strauch Copy Share Image
Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
HAVING A DISCERNING SPIRIT HELPS BOTH SIDES…IT DETOURS ONE SIDE FROM DANGER AND THE OTHER FROM GETTIN' THA LIVIN' CRAP BEAT OUT… — Steven Powell Copy Share Image
May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. (Psalms 32:10) — Bible Copy Share Image
“I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you; it is measured by the… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Ka was the essence of teh person: spirit, intelligence, feelings and passions, humor, grudges, annoying television theme songs, all the things that… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
