Quotes about religious
religious praying quarrels
I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day. Elie Wiesel
religious war crisis
I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war. Elie Wiesel
religious latin long
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit. Edward Sapir
religious issues evil
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group. Edward Said
religious islamic europe
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it has persisted because it's based very, very deeply in religious roots, where Islam is seen as a kind of competitor of Christianity. Edward Said
religious tulsa jew
I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing. Edward Norton
religious religion way
Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you. Bruce Cockburn
religious real dark
You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one. Bruce Campbell
religious back-when christ
I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14. Brian Molko
religious believe political
I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole. Brian Greene
religious pain support
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society. Arthur Conan Doyle
religious ideas painting
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. Ben Nicholson
religious fire hatred
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
religious people hierarchy
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. Barbara Ehrenreich
religious principles ethics
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. Austin Phelps
religious kindness fighting
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about. Bernie Siegel
religious thinking law
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless. Bruce Springsteen
religious memories flower
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here. Bruce Springsteen
religious heart fate
We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet. Bruce Springsteen
religious hurt growing-up
I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment. Brad Pitt
religious feelings facts
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me. Brad Pitt
religious sacrifice thinking
I've always paid attention to religion ... because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing. Brad Pitt
religious great-relationship grew
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion. Brad Pitt
religious prayer rome
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. Jane Elliott
religious views political
Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries. Jane Goodall
religious philosophical ideas
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. Jan Peter Balkenende
religious men law
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool Sydney Smith
religious people religion
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them. Benjamin Franklin
religious jesus religion
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see. Benjamin Franklin
religious father saws
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them. Benjamin Franklin
religious mean interesting
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means. Barbara Walters
religious religious-family
I didn't have a very religious family. Barbara Walters
religious thinking america
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be. Ayad Akhtar