Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony… — Ian Cohen Copy Share Image
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim, and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars. But… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Even cavemen who could barely think, they must have seen it, that sky; and tribal people bossed around by their village chiefs;… — Rose Rosetree Copy Share Image
“I used to feel I could hide inside my practice, that I could simply sit and contemplate the raging anger of a… — Jarvis Jay Masters Copy Share Image
Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able]… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Vitrags (the enlightened ones), those who are free from attachment, saw the world as flawless. Who are we, the wise ones to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Bitter and Frail, young and weak. Smiles are useless, talk is cheap, Give thou venom, fangs like slime, Ugly freak for all… — Keisha Keenleyside Copy Share Image
Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
So, you're like Angel? (Amanda) You watch way too much television. Angel has a soul. I don't. (Kyrian) Now you're back to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“The purpose of our existence is not to kill each other. Neither is it to encourage or manipulate circumstances that would result… — Rob Taylor Copy Share Image
Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering,… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings." — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove.… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into… — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“This knowledge is that which is above all others sweet and joyful. Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Jealousy, malice, envy¦ it all has to be balanced in your life and you have to learn how to handle them. Will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How noble is the journey of each human being, from Divine to dust and back again. How brave to enter a body… — Annie Kagan Copy Share Image
“The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image