Quotes about religious
religious blessed light
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. John Muir
religious government people
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy. John Wesley
religious optimistic principles
High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life. John Templeton
religious hurt believe
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
religious art men
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. John Stuart Blackie
religious attachment people
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. John Strachan
religious philosophy school
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. John Steinbeck
religious lying responsibility
Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe. John Seabrook
religious giving church
As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine. John Podhoretz
religious religion records
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies. John Piper
religious believe practice
I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose. Martin O'Malley
religious men dumb
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads. Martin Luther
religious mentor frogs
The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
religious school humor
What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.
religious humor safe
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
religious prayer book
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.
religious humor school
We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school...
religious lying humor
We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
religious humor years
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
religious humor faults
We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
religious humor two
...two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery...
religious humor home
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
religious humor eye
So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.
religious children humor
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
religious children humor
I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.
religious humor throwing
I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.
religious humor land
Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.
religious humor lakes
At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
religious hurt humor
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.
religious humor wind
The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing...
religious book humor
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two...
religious children humor
The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps...
religious taken humor
The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing...