Quotes about religious
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 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 men grace
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man. Blaise Pascal
religious believe doe
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
religious believe thinking
I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit. Billy Bob Thornton
religious years freedom-of-speech
While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely. Bill Hicks
religious brother war
the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race. Ayn Rand
religious men mind
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
religious men animal
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.
religious children holiday
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.
religious kindness philosophical
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for kindly behaviour, the results may be needlessly unfortunate. That is why it is important to show that no supernatural reasons are needed to make [people] kind and to prove that only through kindness can the human race achieve happiness. Bertrand Russell
religious order people
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.
religious religion atheism
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
religious men law
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual. Benito Mussolini
religious agnostic fascism
Fascism is a religious concept.
religious atheist kissing
The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. Benjamin Disraeli
religious men religion
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. Carl Sandburg
religious believe mean
That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God. C. S. Lewis
religious thinking devil
Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
religious men worship
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge
religious law america
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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