Quotes about religious
religious military reality
We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings. John Trudell
religious sacred religious-freedom
To Americans religious freedom is sacred. John Travolta
religious giving-up philosophical
Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it. John Updike
religious party believe
When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations. John Taylor
religious school men
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival. John Stuart Mill
religious understanding intellectual
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.
religious atheism natural
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
religious tolerance religion
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.
religious world today
Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today. John Shattuck
religious years ideas
Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years. Neale Donald Walsch
religious our-world law
Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that the vast majority of them arose directly from, or where based in principle on, Roman Canon Law, or the laws of other religious origin. Sharia is another notable example.
religious buddhist knowing
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances. Milarepa
religious sight essence
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself. Milan Kundera
religious religion majesty
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. Joseph Barbera
religious heaven rewards
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life. Joseph Addison
religious religion facts
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
religious men honor
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
religious passion thinking
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?
religious men enthusiasm
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
religious organization dollars
Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars. Jose Serrano
religious attitude errors
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed. Joseph A. Schumpeter
religious men hunting
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature. Jose Ortega y Gasset
religious prayer secret
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. Jorge Luis Borges
religious dirty men
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty. Jonathan Winters
religious world used
Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world. Jonny Greenwood
religious jesus religion
Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin. Joni Mitchell
religious next rosary
The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass. Joe Biden
religious heart race
It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.
religious religion rope
Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope. Lou Reed
religious religion able
Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.
religious book writing
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write. Lois Lowry
religious art children
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject. Madeleine L'Engle
religious art real
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.