The Mormon belief system unites curiously American pairs of opposites. A relish for the dog-eat-dog practices of the marketplace goes hand in… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Religionists have a perceived need, planted there as a part of the brainwashing they’ve received. They need no religion, but they think… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had.… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Gary Zukav in The Seat of the Soul sums it up beautifully: The underlying premise of a spiritual partnership is a sacred… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
Just like race doesn't define who you are as person... religion doesn't define your character.it's what inside your heart that shows who… — Zakaria Copy Share Image
Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“I believe that the great tragedy of the church in our time has been its failure to recognize the importance of the… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“Pagoda are the centre of Burmese spiritual life, and every town and village has one. People visit the pagoda daily or weekly… — Emma Larkin Copy Share Image
It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) have not gone away, one has not attained vitraag’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I think we are entitled to at least three provisional conclusions. The first is that religion and the churches are manufactured, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Try as we will to take the “cure” of ineffectuality; to meditate on the Taoist fathers’ doctrine of submission, of withdrawal, of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Pastor Jentzen Franklin put it best when he said that if you can find the faith to move beyond and get over… — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience. — James McHenry Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“If we’re honest, we probably admit that those really tough times in our lives—when we were tested right to the edge of… — Ed Strauss Copy Share Image
The real human being is he whose religion has no name and purpose is to destroy wickedness and to establish righteousness. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“patriotism of many is…a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated… — David Ramsay Copy Share Image
“For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly… — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith Copy Share Image
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image