Quotes about religious
religious couple fifty
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony. William Cobbett
religious heaven universal-love
Heaven's harmony is universal love. William Cowper
religious tree religion
In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord. Van Morrison
religious moving feel-good
It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.
religious giving religion
At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.
religious men religion
Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
religious believe men
I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes. Uri Geller
religious jesus children
Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus? Upton Sinclair
religious thinking ideas
I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion. Ursula K. Le Guin
religious peace true-identity
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.
religious feelings roles
To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself. U Thant
religious political independence
I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide. Saul Alinsky
religious people busy
Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance. Saul Bellow
religious believe ideas
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it. Sarah Jessica Parker
religious thoughtful liberty
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. Sandra Day O'Connor
religious government atheism
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however, by the mere existence of some secular purpose, however dominated by religious purposes... The proper inquiry under the purpose prong of Lemon, I submit, is whether the government intends to convey a message of endorsement or disapproval of religion.
religious silence moments
A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
religious civilization political
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge. Roger Scruton
religious art redemption
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.
religious taken hands
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad. Roger Waters
religious war paris
Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. Roger Ebert
religious integrity patriotic
Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it. Roger Babson
religious religion trying
Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved. Sarah McLachlan
religious consciousness
I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness. Youssef Ziedan
religious real structure
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
religious party diversity
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. William Hague
religious growing-up kids
I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion. William H. Macy
religious guy trying
Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
religious men mind
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. William Hazlitt
religious truth political
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
religious time pain
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.
religious growth principles
There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm. Wendell Berry
religious kindness hatred
Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing with righteousness – as at the crucifixion and before and since. This can happen only after we have made a categorical refusal to kindness: to heretics, foreigners, enemies or any other group different from ourselves.