Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
When we are weak and in despair, our Mighty God is near;He will give us strength and joy and hope, and calm… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The Aloha spirit is something that is very special and very meaningful to us and our Polynesian culture. Those of you who… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers. — Luke Goss Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being humble and being gullible. Those who cant distinguish live a sad life of arrogant ignorance and blind… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
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“Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“There is an important distinction between what is necessary to the being of a church, and what is necessary to its well-being” (55).” — Ryan M. McGraw Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
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I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. Trust in the universe. Believe in the power of positive thinking and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
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