Quotes about religious
religious next tasks
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods. Andre Malraux
religious circles helping
The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him. Ameen Rihani
religious character cat
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt. Ambrose Bierce
religious nuts affair
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. Ambrose Bierce
religious mistake food
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.' Ambrose Bierce
religious tolerance infidelity
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. Ambrose Bierce
religious sacred culinary
EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled. Ambrose Bierce
religious law oil
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. Ambrose Bierce
religious religion orthodox
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke. Ambrose Bierce
religious perspective honor
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. Ambrose Bierce
religious facts conclusion
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. Ambrose Bierce
religious exercise people
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people. Anthony Kennedy
religious philosophy thinking
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world. Alija Izetbegovic
religious children
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that. Alice Walker
religious korea people
Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea. Alice Cooper
religious song church
It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs. Alice Cooper
religious religion noses
Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose. Alice Cooper
religious class world
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. Anne Hull
religious israel justice
They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew. Anne Lamott
religious rights justice
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice. Anne Lamott
religious people worried
I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong. Anne Lamott
religious jesus twilight
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. Albert Schweitzer
religious
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious. Alastair Campbell
religious war fighting
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide. Albert Ellis
religious psychosis personality
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis. Albert Ellis
religious sex real
In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding. Albert Ellis
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. Albert Camus
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. Annie Besant
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. Annie Besant
religious believe people
I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest. Anna Sewell
religious fighting isis
Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause. Chuck Todd