“ Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. Jan Peter Balkenende
“ The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit. M.J. Stoddard
“ When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with"the work of the Devil" or with some unknown, unmentionable force, then he will emerge into… Daniel Logan
“ Justice is the gateway to peace.Education is the gateway to equality.Patience is the gateway to tolerance.Compassion is the gateway to mercy.Certainty is the gateway to assurance.Hope is the gateway t… Matshona Dhliwayo
“ As the wine matures in the wine bottle so doth the minds of men and woman through experience Bradley Elis
“ If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We r… Richard Dawkins
“ It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out. Samuel Moyn
“ Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in l… Immanuel Kant
“ The Zen Monk Kyō Has Changed His Name to Mujū Dōryū. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie Before HimUnwillingness to remain in the ruts of former Buddha patriarchs Unsurpassed… Baisao
“ He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy. Teresa Lo
“ If you believe that you are NOT omnipresent, omniscient and ultimately omnipotent – you are delusional. If you believe that you are separate from that which you call God, then you are living a lie. Kevin Michel
“ Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was… Andrew Louth
“ All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy, that which today is considered true, may tomorrow be proved to… Namkhai Norbu
“ Enlightenment, or Nirvana, is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a very high mountain one always sees the sun. Nirvana is not a paradise or some s… Namkhai Norbu
“ If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out. Eiji Yoshikawa
“ So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supe… Craig S. Keener
“ Relationships without a Divine Aim always "break up," for they are based on nothing. Divine Purpose could be described as forgiveness -- the undoing and releasing of the ego. Belief in the ego prevent… David Hoffmeister
