Quotes about religious
religious brother cutting
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste. Mark Twain
religious atheist people
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
religious yield natural-instinct
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
religious art pandemics
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. Martin Filler
religious fall hands
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. Marquis de Lafayette
religious fear ignorance
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear - those are the twin bases of every religion. Marquis de Sade
religious son thinking
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
religious commitment america
America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional. Mark McKinnon
religious men color
Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals. Mario Vargas Llosa
religious men racism
Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably appears in great literature: that men and women of all nations and places are essentially equal, and only injustice sows among them discrimination, fear, and exploitation.
religious home people
Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion. Nick Minchin
religious teaching being-cool
Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole. Nick Offerman
religious population found
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion. Marvin Harris
religious jesus believe
Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn. Marvin Gaye
religious kids thinking
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it. John Green
religious thinking people
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.
religious ideas action
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
religious men historical
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.
religious atheist struggle
I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. Patton Oswalt
religious real missionary
I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary. Patti Smith
religious angel religion
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
religious nice people
You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them Pat Robertson
religious atheist godly
There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. .... There is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob
religious grace forgiving
The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive. Ozzy Osbourne
religious rocks rock-and-roll
Rock and roll is my religion.
religious school sunday
I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them? Paul Engle
religious powerful father
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. Paul Feig
religious men liberty
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact. Mary Wollstonecraft
religious sex children
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. Mary Garden
religious perspective giving
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. Martha Beck
religious atheist hymns
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. Mark Haddon
religious jesus redemption
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do. Oswald Chambers
religious jesus heart
Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.