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
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
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the… — Walter Rauschenbusch 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
“You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not… — Kevin Hart 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
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
“My friend’s experience reminded me that the search for a perfect religious community is a futile one. As the Trappist monk Thomas… — James Martin Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, we are in the end absolutely dependent on the universe; and into sacrifices and surrenders of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Why grace? Because some days, it's the only thing we have in common. Because it's the one thing I'm certain is real.… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi… — Saul Friedlander Copy Share Image
In Israel, there is no civil marriage. All elements of religious life - from the kosher certification of food to conversion to… — Bari Weiss 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
“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 get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life.… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better… — Anonymous 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
My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“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
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
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal 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
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
No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is… — Wilfred Grenfell Copy Share Image
Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong 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
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself… Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
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