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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
father paris skulls
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to. Richard Leakey
father sick suffering
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering. T. D. Jakes
father emotional broken
For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile. Iyanla Vanzant
father land native
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? Friedrich Schiller
father son two
I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis. Phil Collins
father wish wish-you
On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday. Ralph Kiner
father spirit i-realized
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me. Lady Gaga
father men contradictory
My father was a very contradictory man. John Malkovich
father light discovery
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . . John Locke
congress large lots members money
Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done. Tom Schatz
congress follow guidelines impose president procedures
If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law. Eric Fehrnstrom