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I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film. Lars Trier
religious style looks
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. Rob Sheffield
religious book careers
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. Richard Paul Evans
religious compassion giving
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.
religious philosophical adventure
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. Richard P. Feynman
religious knowledge people
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." Richard Dawkins
religious religion useless
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.
religious thinking opposites
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.
religious giving-up children
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.
opposites walks setting
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.
opposites funny-things envy
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig
opposites differences judging
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced. Virginia Woolf
opposites water gold
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. Rebecca Solnit
opposites society together
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. Eric Hoffer
opposites vices virtue
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
opposites society way
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
opposites age world
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.
opposites soul tension
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
spirituality
God is in me or else is not at all. Wallace Stevens
spirituality not-sure
I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. Tracy Chapman
spirituality ghost modern
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
spirituality my-own values
I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity. Kitty Kelley
spirituality openness
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. Alan Watts
spirituality paramount
Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life. Chaka Khan
spirituality reborn gods-will
God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you. Bernard of Clairvaux
spirituality ethical existence
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. Albert Schweitzer
spirituality communion communion-with-god
Only through love can we obtain communion with God.