“Militant might in women is named as unfeminine aggression; scholarship in women is diminished into a domestic art. Religious life is viewed… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks… — Uwem Akpan 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
“I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
“By definition, a 'Sisterchick' is a 'friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and gives… — Robin Jones Gunn 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
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'.… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it… — Diana L. Eck 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
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
“I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.” — Michael Lewis 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
“Jesus Christ, with His divine understanding of every understanding of our human nature, understood that not all men were called to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because… — Krista Tippett 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
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
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
