Quotes about religious
religious believe sacrifice
I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be. Tayari Jones
religious fire water
The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire. Svetlana Alliluyeva
religious powerful mean
Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun. Svetlana Alliluyeva
religious real soul
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue. Swami Vivekananda
religious cheerful firsts
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful Swami Vivekananda
religious ideas ratios
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio. Swami Vivekananda
religious reading book
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. Swami Vivekananda
religious men cheerful
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world? Swami Vivekananda
religious heart men
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind. Swami Vivekananda
religious other-worlds politics
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths Tony Benn
religious thinking conviction
I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me Tony Abbott
religious thinking campaigns
I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her. Tony Abbott
religious atheist dad
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. Tony Blair
religious religion honest
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it. Tony Blair
religious numbers racism
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. Tony Blair
religious children religion
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane. Tom Petty
religious mean home
Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me. Tom Petty
religious religion way
I got my own way of praying. Tom Petty
religious earth quests
Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one. Simone Elkeles
religious women hangover
She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover. Simone de Beauvoir
religious heart son
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light [-] It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church. Simone Weil
religious perfect political
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony. Juan Goytisolo
religious wrath punishment
There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions. Joshua L. Liebman
religious saws calling
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. Joshua Lederberg
religious political peaceful
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany. Otto Schily
religious war soul-and-body
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God. Ouida
religious dog believe
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too. Otto von Bismarck
religious jesus teaching
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. Kamisese Mara
religious jesus religion
The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus. Kanye West
religious real inspiration
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious. Julian Huxley
religious real intimate-relationships
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him. Joyce Meyer
religious hurt mean
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. Paul Tillich
religious principles silent
We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science Paul Kurtz