Quotes about religious
religious america long
But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come. John Kasich
religious gun practice
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them. John Kasich
religious regret men
We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration. John Keats
religious giving charity
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could. John D. Rockefeller
religious believe giving
I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can. John D. Rockefeller
religious dog growing-up
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up. Lisa Bonet
religious book class
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. Lionel Blue
religious taken ghetto
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. Lionel Blue
religious exercise age
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature. Lionel Trilling
religious appreciation atheist
Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both. Linus Torvalds
religious hippie morality
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. Linus Torvalds
religious sex believe
What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith. Lindsey Graham
religious military want
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us. Linda Chavez
religious dog animal
People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test. Linda Blair
religious philosophy men
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.
religious brother men
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain. Leo Tolstoy
religious people religion
Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives. Leo Tolstoy
religious art lying
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling. Leo Tolstoy
religious teaching men
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him. Leo Tolstoy
religious mean people
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction. Leo Tolstoy
religious taken acceptance
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this? Leo Tolstoy
religious people way
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful. Peter L. Berger
religious reason skeptic
Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason? Peter Kreeft
religious lying men
With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man. Peter Gabriel
religious eye religion
In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches. Peter Gabriel
religious peace heart
If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart. Pema Chodron
religious cousin moving
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism? Phil Donahue
religious groups fans
Genesis fans are a religious group! Phil Collins
religious atheist talking
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. Peter O'Toole
religious thinking pluralism-is
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate. Peter Hollingworth
religious believe people
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier. Peter Cameron
religious jesus catholic
I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious. Pete Postlethwaite
religious kitchen priestesses
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there. Pearl Bailey