Quotes about religious
religious government political
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. Abraham Lincoln
religious selfish thinking
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
religious mean giving
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
religious cases difficulty
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
religious men self
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. Alexis de Tocqueville
religious men aberration
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.
religious struggle law
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.
religious men law
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.
religious government forever
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.
religious believe men
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.
religious dog prayer
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals. Albert Schweitzer
religious atheist feelings
I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me. Ricky Gervais
religious growing-up pain
Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I've never understood it. I can't stand to have an animal in pain.
religious epic people
Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.
religious expression people
The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony
religious parent age
I screwed up at a young age with my parents. They were very religious and they didn't really understand music. They didn't really listen to music. I went through a series of battles with them about why I loved music. Brent Smith
religious falling-in-love religion
Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above. Bootsy Collins
religious pride people
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride. Boris Kodjoe
religious emotional thinking
I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
religious art simple
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal. Bob Colacello
religious men long-ago
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross. Bob Dylan
religious eden religion
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.
religious jesus religion
I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
religious heart organization
I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.
religious religion salvation
I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.
religious greed heaven
God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.
religious men vanity
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
religious religion done
Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.
religious hands religion
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
religious whining dylan
The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.
religious offending people
A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries. Billy Connolly
religious-wars
My God is better than your God Boy George
religious father rights
I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die. Brigham Young