Quotes about religious
religious men expression
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. Malcolm Muggeridge
religious self mind
I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
religious philosophy past
When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church! If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practising that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization--civic, religious, fraternal, political or otherwise--that's based on lifting... the black man up and making him master of his own community. Malcolm X
religious eye feet
I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.
religious political religion
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
religious strong philosophy
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.
religious freedom believe
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
religious writing games
I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it. Mahatma Gandhi
religious today scripture
Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.
religious women special
Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
religious self yield
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
religious truth atmosphere
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
religious book historical
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
religious order religion
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
religious believe religion
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
religious religion matter
'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.
religious religion welfare
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
religious religion bombs
A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
religious teaching essence
The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
religious men principles
It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
religious differences practice
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
religious illustration literature
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
religious exercise meditation
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. Johannes Tauler
religious america political
America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs. John Adams
religious mean would-be
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
religious book law
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.
religious men liberty
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God . . . . Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments.
religious atheism asylums
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.
religious ignorance men
The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.
religious father character
We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.
religious father rights
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.
religious real war
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.
religious kings men
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.