Quotes about religious
religious art passionate
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith. Louis Auchincloss
religious passion honest
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. Lord Hailsham
religious men thinking
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about. Loren Eiseley
religious men vision
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.
religious thinking religion
Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power. Malcolm Gladwell
religious justice-for-all important
We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II Mahmoud Abbas
religious animal men
Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature is like the mute animals. Their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey. Maimonides
religious ignorance men
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
religious hate islamic
Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
religious men religion
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side. Mahatma Gandhi
religious there-is-no-god greater
There is no god greater than truth.
religious friendly sacred
A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
religious fear religion
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
religious political mind
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
religious taken passion
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
religious want body
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body
religious politician mankind
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
religious squares engagement
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. Maggie Gallagher
religious military father
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses. Napoleon Bonaparte
religious money atheist
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
religious atheist people
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
religious men anxiety
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. Northrop Frye
religious money heirs
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things. Norman O. Brown
religious annoyed may
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. Norman Lamm
religious differences nuance
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.
religious government israel
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
religious literature complicated
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family. Orhan Pamuk
religious strong europe
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.
religious war army
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious hatred is mainly a question of peace. This concept is not anchored in the same way in the consciousness of Turks, which has to do with the fact that the secular was forced upon us by the army.
religious sticks dry
For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed. Oliver Wendell Holmes
religious attitude humility
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
religious lying mean
It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there. Octavia Butler
religious tolerance peaceful
North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts. Nursultan Nazarbayev