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religious lying moving
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. Bobby Fischer
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 years lds
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. Thomas S. Monson
religious leader vision
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened. Thomas Sowell
religious struggle night
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn. Robert Musil
religious thinking ideas
There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect. Sydney Pollack
religious philosophical hands
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason. Sydney J. Harris
religious talking imagination
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought. Susan Sontag
heaven legends crime
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. James A. Baldwin
heaven hell
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell. Francis Beaumont
heaven impossible another-life
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. Francis Atterbury
heaven unions may
May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence George Washington
heaven church christianity
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.
heaven inner-peace
Heaven is to be at peace with things. George Santayana
heaven secret atheism
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. Fyodor Dostoevsky
heaven life-is embrace
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
heaven temptation earth
He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth. F. Scott Fitzgerald
church lie separation state
...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left. Pat Robertson
church jim
I went to church and Jim and his wife, Liz, went to see the home. Dick Vitale
church imagine members
It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component. Mark Batterson
church trying affair
Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation. Mitt Romney
church nests mediocrity
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. Pope Francis
church want might
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.
church never-forget lord
Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.
church trying visionaries
Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves. Peter Slipper
church trying claims
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. Philip Yancey