Quotes about religious
religious two political
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything. Swami Vivekananda
religious tree awakening
The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so. Swami Vivekananda
religious anger soul
I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth. Swami Vivekananda
religious practice beginners
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. Swami Vivekananda
religious attitude intellectual
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for. Rollo May
religious gay tolerance
If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance. Rupert Everett
religious stars men
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal. Rumi
religious thug forgive-me
Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me. Tupac Shakur
religious thug religion
Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care? Tupac Shakur
religious religion doe
Confucius does his crossword with a pen. Tori Amos
religious religion way
My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way. Tori Amos
religious brother law
Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze? Tori Amos
religious praying
You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray. Vera Farmiga
religious fun three
There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted. Vera Farmiga
religious ignorance political
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. Van Wyck Brooks
religious hypocrite trying
Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself. Vance Havner
religious believe
What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk. Vance Havner
religious teaching school
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion;.... leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate. Ulysses S. Grant
religious war blood
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black. Umberto Eco
religious hero thinking
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise. Umberto Eco
religious views important
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists. Richard Dawkins
religious simple speaks-out
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. Richard Dawkins
religious atheist people
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists. Richard Dawkins
religious distance aliens
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious! Richard Dawkins
religious nice interesting
It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason. Richard Dawkins
religious nice believe
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us that faith is a virtue, that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence, that you believe because you believe. Once you buy into that, then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.' Richard Dawkins
religious real people
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic. Richard Dawkins
religious book people
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. Richard Dawkins
religious independent people
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous. Richard Dawkins
religious atheist people
Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further. Richard Dawkins
religious atheist if-there-is-a-god
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. Richard Dawkins
religious real believe
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. Richard Dawkins
religious believe people
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification. Richard Dawkins