Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Thomas

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

E. O. Wilson

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

George Wald

We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

Barry Lynn

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

Rusty Brown

The only thing I would do differently is, I might make the great room wider and longer. When we do get a ton of people up here, this room is full - but that's like designing a church for Easter Sunday.

Edward McKendree Bounds

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Steve Sexton

It is a joy each year to see the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs through the eyes of talented young students.

Alice McCarthy

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I think it is going to be an opportunity for straight people to see with gays and lesbians think about the church.

Yotam Tepper

It is for sure the earliest church in Israel that we know of.

Bob James

I think that as long as the focus is on doing what we perceive the Lord wants us to do, the church will thrive. If we don't, it won't.

Kiaran McLaughlin

It gets more like Churchill ( Downs ) all the time.

John Daley

It is not a university function; it is a church function. We just rented out the room. We rent facilities out to all kinds of groups.

Wallace Stevens

God is in me or else is not at all.

Tracy Chapman

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Kitty Kelley

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Thomas Jefferson

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Mike Yaconelli

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Matthew Henry

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.