Quotes about religious
religious art mean
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. Albert Camus
religious practice people
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
religious growth india
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible. Annie Besant
religious atheist philosophy
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
religious earthquakes soul
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.
religious thinking
I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me. Clay Aiken
religious heart reality
Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns D. A. Carson
religious men religion
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. D. H. Lawrence
religious believe men
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
religious might should
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
religious wonder natural
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
religious irreverence dirt
If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab
religious elements may
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.
religious color world
As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense. Conrad Hilton
religious knowledge character
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character. Alexander MacLaren
religious mean greatness
I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
religious progress would-be
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions. E. O. Wilson
religious intelligent people
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
religious views theory-of-evolution
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
religious marine college
People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.
religious believe different
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
religious belief adaptation
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
religious groups essentials
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
religious character atheism
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.
religious epic poetry-is
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
religious believe dogma
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
religious differences people
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
religious sacrifice men
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. Douglas MacArthur
religious yield issues
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
religious book writing
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work. Don DeLillo
religious jesus believe
Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore. Don McLean
religious boxing moments
I had a moment of religious epiphanosity. Don King
religious government care
Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is. Dwight D. Eisenhower