Quotes about religious
religious sacred culinary
EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled. Ambrose Bierce
religious law oil
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
religious religion orthodox
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
religious perspective honor
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
religious facts conclusion
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
religious exercise people
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people. Anthony Kennedy
religious philosophy thinking
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world. Alija Izetbegovic
religious children
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that. Alice Walker
religious korea people
Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea. Alice Cooper
religious song church
It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.
religious religion noses
Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.
religious class world
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. Anne Hull
religious israel justice
They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew. Anne Lamott
religious rights justice
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.
religious people worried
I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
religious emotional community
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. Amy Waldman
religious skins use
I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30. Amanda Beard
religious agree-upon space
Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence. Aga Khan IV
religious knowledge character
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character. Alexander MacLaren
religious mean greatness
I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
religious progress would-be
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions. E. O. Wilson
religious intelligent people
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
religious views theory-of-evolution
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
religious marine college
People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.
religious believe different
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
religious belief adaptation
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
religious groups essentials
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
religious character atheism
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.
religious epic poetry-is
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
religious believe dogma
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
religious differences people
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
religious sacrifice men
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. Douglas MacArthur
religious yield issues
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?