Quotes about religious
religious men law
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool Sydney Smith
religious t
I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.
religious political intellectual
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. Carroll Quigley
religious exercise practice
The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise--the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions. Alan Keyes
religious views different
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science. Alan Lightman
religious personal-knowledge class
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. Alan Dundes
religious political chocolate
Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate. Alain Ducasse
religious atheist journey
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life. Alain de Botton
religious religion trials
Trials can be hard, if you don't know God. Al Green
religious war evil
Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless. Al Gore
religious children years
Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.
religious people suffering
Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed. Charles Kimball
religious character heart
Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was? Charles Kingsley
religious men self
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, confirmed by instruction and habit, all combined, constitute our moral sense or conscience. Charles Darwin
religious science men
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, 'as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.'
religious science views
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
religious men years
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.
religious father cutting
My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
religious school mecca
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
religious educational people
Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
religious imagination superstitions
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations
religious prayer years
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. Bill Shuster
religious dirty alliances
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. Bhagat Singh
religious men people
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all. C. S. Lewis
religious philosophical emotional
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.
religious thinking mouths
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
religious reading reality
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.
religious insanity knows
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
religious people honest
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
religious perception moments
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
religious religion attention
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
religious hands people
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power. Catullus
religious jesus religion
Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel. Carrie Underwood