Quotes about religious
religious believe school
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people. Adolf Hitler
religious lying greatness
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.
religious religion lovely
On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica. Adam Sandler
religious differences dating
There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil. Adam Ferrara
religious pain healing
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss. Aberjhani
religious believe cognitive-dissonance
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in. A. J. Jacobs
religious identity islam
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. Abdolkarim Soroush
religious appreciated poetry-is
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. A. E. Housman
religious law giving
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth. Adrienne Rich
religious religious-fanatics fanatics
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic. Agatha Christie
religious people movement
Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith. Adrian Rogers
religious nuts fruit
God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
religious political prejudice
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. Adam Weishaupt
religious intellectual together
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. Ada Lovelace
religious hymns religion
I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco. Adam Ant
religious government neutrality
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality... Abe Fortas
religious order political
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life. Abraham Kuyper
religious jewish-faith orthodox
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. Abraham Cahan
religious passion men
A religious man is a person ... whose greatest passion is compassion. Abraham Joshua Heschel
religious patriotic heart
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul. Abraham Lincoln
religious leader parent
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did. Dar Williams
religious art philosophy
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . . Corliss Lamont
religious views light
Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist. Cornel West
religious parent catholic
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief. Colm Toibin
religious september-11 followers
On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers. Cliff Stearns
religious temptation return
Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb. Dwight L. Moody
religious thinking answers
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! Friedrich Nietzsche
religious likes
I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me. Tony Kushner
religious children couple
Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools. Orson Scott Card
religious thinking trying
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness. Pierre de Coubertin
religious class luxury
The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't. Kurt Vonnegut
religious giving water
What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.
religious heaven judgement
I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.