Quotes about religious
religious intelligent men
While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being. George Combe
religious mean thinking
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien. George Clinton
religious book school
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely acquired the rudiments of religious instruction, turned with childlike attachment to men whose minds were stored with the knowledge of Scripture, of Cicero, of St. Augustine; and in the scanty world of their ideas, the Church was felt to be something infinitely vaster, stronger, holier than their newly founded States. Lord Acton
religious atheist missing
I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with. Lisa Williams
religious mean heart
We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts. Lyndon B. Johnson
religious political weakness
I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.
religious way months
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day. Luke Ford
religious men past
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
religious home views
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
religious feelings atheism
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs. Ludwig Feuerbach
religious stupid ideas
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction. Louis Auchincloss
religious art passionate
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.
religious
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day... Lord Byron
religious passion honest
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. Lord Hailsham
religious men thinking
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about. Loren Eiseley
religious men vision
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.
religious thinking religion
Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power. Malcolm Gladwell
religious justice-for-all important
We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II Mahmoud Abbas
religious animal men
Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature is like the mute animals. Their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey. Maimonides
religious ignorance men
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
religious hate islamic
Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
religious men religion
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side. Mahatma Gandhi
religious there-is-no-god greater
There is no god greater than truth.
religious friendly sacred
A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
religious fear religion
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
religious political mind
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
religious taken passion
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
religious want body
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body
religious politician mankind
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
religious squares engagement
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. Maggie Gallagher
religious struggle hymns
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. Madame de Stael
religious sacrifice desire
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
religious heart feelings
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.