Quotes about religious
religious divine should
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. Henry James Sumner Maine
religious writing science
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion. Heinz Pagels
religious belief kind
I have no beliefs of a religious kind. Helen Clark
religious pests disease
Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable. Johann Most
religious humble humility
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love. Johann Kaspar Lavater
religious voice imagination
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
religious art kind
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.
religious writing morality
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
religious arbitrary chance
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
religious reality tolerance
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
religious people scary
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.... George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Joe Lieberman
religious my-own
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head. Joe Eszterhas
religious religion
You got your God and so do I. Jimi Hendrix
religious jesus christ
A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do. Jim Kaat
religious religion next
Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.
religious condom-use leader
The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use Emma Thompson
religious sex condom-use
But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use
religious men effort
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. Emma Goldman
religious block men
Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.
religious sacrifice political
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
religious real effort
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.
religious father
My father was very outwardly religious. John McGahern
religious sunday grandmother
My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious. John Mellencamp
religious grandma hands
Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
religious may mercy
God may have mercy, but we won't. John McCain
religious long political
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy. John Jay Chapman
religious mean people
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! John Irving
religious practice two
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
religious one-day sometimes
If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."
religious ideas racism
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief. John Howard
religious real feelings
I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least. John Hodgman
religious enquiry modesty
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. John Henry Newman
religious selfish rewards
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.