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religious grateful practice
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us. Dan Brown
religious religion orthodox
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke. Ambrose Bierce
religious hypocrite faith-religion
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Thomas Jefferson
religious communication imagination
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatised from them. Thomas Jefferson
religious believe book
Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own. Thomas Jefferson
religious office atheism
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right. Thomas Jefferson
religious reflection giving
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned. Thomas Jefferson
religious wall religion
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. Thomas Jefferson
religious people political
The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom. Thomas Jefferson
reality yesterday promise
Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history! Billy Blanks
reality utah church
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church. Andrew Solomon
reality risk perception
Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception. Daniel Kahneman
reality simple people
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality. Daniel Kahneman
reality looks littles
Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug) D. J. MacHale
reality thinking quests
What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality. Czeslaw Milosz
reality creative departed
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism. D. H. Lawrence
reality knows
God doesn't know things. He is things. D. H. Lawrence
reality hypocrisy over-it
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words. D. H. Lawrence