Quotes about religious
religious believe men
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. J. Philippe Rushton
religious honesty home
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing, and, where possible, fuel also, for at least a year ahead...Let every head of household aim to own his own home, free from mortgage. Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues-honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed. J. Reuben Clark
religious hard-times self-reliance
...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.
religious waiting religion
I'm still waiting for the Lord to come hug me. Ja Rule
religious believe littles
I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
religious pain feelings
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore. H. P. Lovecraft
religious philosophical character
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides? Georg C. Lichtenberg
religious people moral
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. Gary Hamel
religious lying seductive
The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed Friedrich Nietzsche
religious party boys
In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free? Jessica Valenti
religious real practice
Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands. Jerry Bridges
religious teenagers
how inarticulate most teenagers were about their religious faith. Christian Smith
religious teaching loss
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that more cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution ... than to anything else. Huston Smith
religious joy promise
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
religious people chinese
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. Hu Shih
religious europe chinese
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
religious chinese wish
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
religious climbing religion
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder. Huey Lewis
religious tribal
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. Gore Vidal
religious men important
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. Samuel Butler
religious pain healing
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss. Aberjhani
religious believe cognitive-dissonance
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in. A. J. Jacobs
religious identity islam
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. Abdolkarim Soroush
religious appreciated poetry-is
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. A. E. Housman
religious law giving
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth. Adrienne Rich
religious religious-fanatics fanatics
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic. Agatha Christie
religious people movement
Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith. Adrian Rogers
religious nuts fruit
God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
religious political prejudice
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. Adam Weishaupt
religious intellectual together
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. Ada Lovelace
religious hymns religion
I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco. Adam Ant
religious government neutrality
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality... Abe Fortas
religious order political
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life. Abraham Kuyper