Quotes about religious
religious rights people
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people. Marco Rubio
religious book heart
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God. Thomas a Kempis
religious men silence
You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses. Thomas a Kempis
religious people way
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. Thomas A. Edison
religious atheist if-there-is-a-god
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. Thomas A. Edison
religious may facts
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. Thomas A. Edison
religious atheism inquiry
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry. Sidney Hook
religious order doctrine
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. Sidney Hook
religious needs kind
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind. Sharon Salzberg
religious new-shoes ballet
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature. Natalie Portman
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 men giving
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Thucydides
religious heart names
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? Robert A. Heinlein
religious style gone
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them. Robert A. Heinlein
religious prayer real
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history. Robert A. Heinlein
religious philosophy thinking
I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really ancient, about how to imagine living beyond any physical bounds, which we're on the verge of now. Tilda Swinton
religious philosophical mean
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. Tim Allen
religious america race
America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices. Tiger Woods
religious pain inward
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace. Thomas Watson
religious physicians next
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen. Thomas Szasz