Quotes about religious
religious kindness giving
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being. Huston Smith
religious attitude taken
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.
religious issues justice
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
religious order practice
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion. James Frey
religious catholic revision
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. J. R. R. Tolkien
religious past years
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices. Isaac Hayes
religious people sacred
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
religious dog lying
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty. Isaac Bashevis Singer
religious philosophical perspective
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.
religious atheist fear
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
religious vegetarianism earth
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
religious powerful men
One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a compendium of the thoughts of great men and women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been alone. Isaac Asimov
religious religion downtrodden
The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.
religious hypocrite heaven
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
religious atheist ignorance
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
religious war blood
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. Irena Sendler
religious war humility
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.
religious men thinking
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly. Immanuel Kant
religious philosophical recognition
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
religious hatred leader
Instead of more violence why isn't there a meeting of religious leaders. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?' Elton John
religious people leader
We are all God's people; we have to get along and the religious leaders have to lead the way. If they don't do it, who else is going to do it? They're not going to do it and it's left to musicians or to someone else to deal with it.
religious children war
If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
religious drinking angel
He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.
religious angel glasses
After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.
religious lying religion
Some kneel and lie to God.
religious strong fighting
To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.
religious wine men
Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.
religious brother men
Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.
religious names evil
It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
religious land ideas
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
religious lying ambition
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
religious lying ambition
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
religious ordinary way
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult. Francis Spufford