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religious tribal
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. Gore Vidal
religious insanity knows
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. C. S. Lewis
religious people honest
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away? C. S. Lewis
religious perception moments
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one... C. S. Lewis
religious religion attention
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. C. S. Lewis
religious hands people
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power. Catullus
religious jesus religion
Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel. Carrie Underwood
religious believe thinking
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines. Carl Rogers
religious political able
If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along. Carl Sagan
prayers span time
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come. Gloria Gaither
prayer wine vision
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. C. S. Lewis
prayer thinking people
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget. C. S. Lewis
prayer essence may
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. C. S. Lewis
prayer lays ought
We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us. C. S. Lewis
prayer offense-and-defense weapons
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. Carrie Chapman Catt
prayer believe miracle
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her. Bernard Berenson
prayer moon perfect
Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
prayer bird fairness
To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer. William Shakespeare
powerful writing sometimes
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. Carrie Fisher
powerful empathy needs
Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment. Carl Rogers
powerful science feel-good
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good. Carl Sagan
powerful grief acceptance
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney. Carl Sagan
powerful beer eight
So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place. Bill Bryson
powerful slave internals
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education. Arnold Schoenberg
powerful farewell saying-farewell
Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning. Aron Ralston
powerful really-powerful urges
I have a really powerful urge to see things work. Bill Budge
powerful men towns
Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you. Bill Bryson