Quotes about religious
religious people church
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people. Anthony Trollope
religious may threat
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. Diane Ackerman
religious lying biblical
This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical. Craig Ferguson
religious leader agendas
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
religious jesus two
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles. Elizabeth I
religious men leader
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here? Arthur Keith
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 civilization progress
There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world. Dennis Prager
religious world secular
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
religious passion law
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
religious identity generations
We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity
religious ethnicity wings
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.
religious atheist people
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
religious philosophy men
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. Denis Diderot
religious men blood
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!
religious policy one-thing
It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy. Madeleine Albright
religious army men
As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. In other words no one's ever talked me into anything. Charlton Heston
religious organization belief
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs. Charley Pride
religious ignorance ignorant
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. Charles Lindbergh
religious israel iran
The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian. Charles Krauthammer
religious believe moral
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
religious believe meditation
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Billy Joel
religious people important
For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me. Beyonce Knowles
religious people superstitions
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor. Edward Gibbon
religious inquiry suspended
It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).
religious reflection people
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.
religious war empires
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
religious regret years
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.
religious self order
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life. Edith Stein
religious light order
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.