Grace Quote by William James Download Open image “[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grace Harmony Order Peace Religion Unseen
Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it. — William James Copy Share Image
“Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of… — William James Copy Share Image
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them. — Jacob Neusner Copy Share Image
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order. This… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image