Quotes for All
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name… . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life … so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives … the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to … Read more
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life. Edith Stein
My father’s religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued. Frank Moore Cross
Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don’t) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus. Dolores Hart
I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascinated with the religious lives of others who seemed also to be very religious, yet in ways that were quite different from my own. That fascination led to … Read more
India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers. Diana L. Eck
With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life–Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return. Diana Gabaldon
Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives Dennis Prager
You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result. David Kudler