I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14..
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little..
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid re….
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory ….
In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention..
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful ….
The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God..
I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black peopl….
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of s….
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary E….
To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working..
In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from the….
When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask….
When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we put ourselves in a position to….
Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved..
The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates t….
The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The reli….
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained….
Donald Trump for his part's out there saying it's outrageous for a religious leader to say that he's not a Christian. Trump's out there saying (parap….
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call ….
I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO..