Quotes about religious
religious fear religion
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Mahatma Gandhi
religious want body
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body Mahatma Gandhi
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. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Norman Lamm
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. Norman Lamm
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. Orhan Pamuk
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. Orhan Pamuk
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
religious law may
Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power. Norman Vincent Peale
religious love-you hug
God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself. Norman Vincent Peale
religious profound fragility
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute. Emile M. Cioran
religious healthy mind
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears. Emile M. Cioran
religious moving acceptance
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all? Ellen Goodman
religious may tables
It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment. Ellen G. White
religious exercise amusement
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises. Ellen G. White
religious humanity privilege
It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity. Ellen G. White
religious men long
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man. Epicurus
religious bears poor
You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. Epictetus
religious thinking artist
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. Emily Carr
religious careers mind
Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career. Emerson Fittipaldi
religious two fundamentals
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action. Emile Durkheim
religious philosophy science
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy. Emile Durkheim
religious loss men
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. Emile Durkheim
religious reality representation
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities. Emile Durkheim
religious happy-life names
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life. Ellen Swallow Richards