He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization.… — David Kudler Copy Share Image
With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The key ‘subtle influences’ were enumerated as: the rise of the city over the countryside, the loss of Britons’ maritime skills, the… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“I may be wrong but I think nothing needs so much effort as prayer to God. If anyone wants to pray, the… — Benedicta Ward Copy Share Image
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that it should be precisely our century—a century of social science and of solidarity if ever there was… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“Resolve: “I will engage in a religious life only for the love of God; and I will endeavor to act only for… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central paradox of the religious life is that it seeks transcendence, a dimension of existence that goes beyond our mundane… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
In the home the child should honour his father and mother and the parents should respect the children.The parents' duty is to… — Chiristianity Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and… — Lucinda Vardey Copy Share Image
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world!… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees;… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
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