Ending Quote by Huston Smith

You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community…

— Pope Paul VI

I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner…

— Twinkle Khanna

“Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the…

— Donald Miller

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

— Djuna Barnes

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

— David Gerrold

“There is a kind of crystallization in the circumstances of one’s life. A peculiar turn of mind draws to itself events fitted to its…

— John William Polidori

Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce…

— Huston Smith

“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother with a…

— Patricia Lockwood

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies…

— Walter Rauschenbusch

“You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer;…

— C.S. Lewis

Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses…

— Pope Francis

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does…

— Oswald Chambers

“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become…

— Walter Brueggemann

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

— CS Lewis

“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 explains that…

— Lucinda Vardey