Quotes about religious
religious thinking serious
Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions. Avigdor Lieberman
religious political flags
Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
religious men leader
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
religious charlie-hebdo rights
There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western media and Western leaders, religious and lay, to protect the most basic rights of freedom of expression, whether in satire on any other form. The West must not appease, it must not be silenced. We must send a united message to the terrorists: Your violence cannot destroy our soul.
religious secular-society political
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.
religious neutrality constitution
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. Arthur Goldberg
religious knowledge political
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation. Arthur Balfour
religious behavior function
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me. Arthur C. Clarke
religious attitude regret
Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
religious funeral kind
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral
religious nice intelligent
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind ?
religious religion atheism
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
religious men educated
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious Anton Chekhov
religious america profound
One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion. bell hooks
religious ends pretension
Faith begins where religious pretension ends Austin Farrer
religious freedom thinking
I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance. Asa Hutchinson
religious peace men
If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 460,000,000 years old. It could end in an afternoon. Arundhati Roy
religious years looks
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.
religious morning night
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees. Anthony Trollope
religious people church
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.
religious may threat
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. Diane Ackerman
religious men long-ago
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross. Bob Dylan
religious eden religion
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.
religious jesus religion
I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
religious heart organization
I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.
religious religion salvation
I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.
religious greed heaven
God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.
religious men vanity
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
religious religion done
Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.
religious hands religion
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
religious whining dylan
The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.
religious offending people
A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries. Billy Connolly
religious-wars
My God is better than your God Boy George