“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.” YearsFirstsDifferentMomentsLightLastsWinningHoursReligiousDarknessSunImagineEventsMoonWorshipSpringDrawsTraditionFollowingFixedDramaticSundayCosmicRootedEasterParallelsFull MoonReligious TraditionsEquinoxSun God Author:Tom Harpur
“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.” MomentsDifficultReligiousSilenceQuietTraditionArtisticContemplativeQuiet Moments Author:David Whyte
“The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.” PeopleMomentsReligiousStudyMeditationInvolvedIntentionStuckBoredGuaranteesReligious Studies Author:Frederick Lenz
“People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.” PeopleMindEnoughMomentsFallCoursesReligiousPowerfulCommonDangerousWorshipMadnessIntelligentDressesMadMajorityDepthAffairLocalsSaneShelterPlatoLunaticGeneralitiesHegelAugustineCommon LifePowerful Mind Author:David Stove
“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” LifeMomentsGodHelpingEyeChristianSpiritualLife IsFaithChallengesReligiousPrayerPowerfulLordTearsForgivenessForgivingConstantChristian InspirationalChristian LifeHelp MeTrust In GodGodlyCommitment To GodConfidence In GodDiscouragementIntimacy With GodForgive MeGod HelpGod LifeConnecting With GodConversations With GodGod Help MeTalking To GodGod ForgivesAsking For HelpChristian GodLord Forgive MeGod Forgive MeTears In My EyesGod And Life Author:Billy Graham
“My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.” MomentsSpeakLanguageGivenReligiousMy OwnViewsSpeaks French Author:Susan Sontag