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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 people meditation
Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when they are unhappy - then their religion is pseudo. Try to understand why you are unhappy. Rajneesh
religious fighting faith-religion
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Thomas Jefferson
religious faith-religion daylight
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. Thomas Jefferson
religious men rights
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics! Thomas Jefferson
religious rights law
Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done. Thomas Jefferson
religious important constitution
This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists... Thomas Jefferson
religious atheist faith-religion
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God Thomas Jefferson
names late pollock
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. Lee Krasner
evil
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life Albert Schweitzer
evil good men needed prosper
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
evil feelings use
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good. Adam Hamilton
evil indifference silent
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. Abraham Joshua Heschel
evil suffering limits
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. Abraham Joshua Heschel
evil outcomes evidence
All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market. Ludwig von Mises
evil giving
Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it. Ludwig von Mises
evil deeds ill
Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare
evil fight greatest minute oneself until worse
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself Patrick McGoohan