A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
By fasting we are losing nothing financially we are blessing ourselves physically and we are gaining greater spiritual power to withstand the temptations that we meet in life and, best of all, in giving to the poor we are practicing the very essence of our religion.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
spiritual ambassador in Europe.
Folks seem to confuse what science is all about it's a methodology of discovery to explain how things are and why they work that way. Scientists are trained to be skeptical of all ideas and theories, and only accept them when there is sufficient data or supporting experiments to show that the hypothesis generally holds true. Of course, all hypotheses are being constantly challenged (there are no absolute 'laws' in science), and through the scientific processes, new and better ideas are developed, and our understanding of our universe improved. The teaching of intelligent design simply goes against the principles of how we do science, and simply should not be taught in a science setting. ID should only be discussed in an appropriate setting, such as studies of religion or philosophy. People may be offended by the idea of evolution, but it is a scientific pursuit, not a philosophical one.
Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking it is a religion of the art of life.
Like Catholic schoolgirls engaging in wild promiscuity to prove they aren't fanatics about their religion, Robertson ... consistently takes the most pathetically moderate, establishment positions within the Republican Party.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
The function of a modern religion is to accumulate spiritual power in life and for life. We need that power all the time, but if it has not been accumulated it is not there when we need it most. In a world like this, particularly like the one at the present time, can anyone get along just as well without the inspirations of religion He cannot. Religion keeps us up to the everlasting effort to attain the best life and best things in life.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Unity is vital for all, wherever they are and whatever their country, religion or sex. Love should be the unifying force..Teachers Promote the sense of human unity among all people, without regard to race, religion or caste.
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.
Ultimately, being a part of a team means competing, working, living and winning and losing together. And in the end, a teammate's nationality, his language, his taste in music or his religion aren't sources of division, but in fact mediums of greater friendship, understanding and success.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Religion Humanity's greatest folly, greatest curse.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will find that they come under four headings love, money, adventure and religion. It is to some of them that we always owe that big urge which pushes us onward. Men who crush these impulses and settle down to everyday routine are bound to sink into mediocrity. No man is a complete unit of himself he needs the contact, the stimulus and the driving power which is generated by his contact with other men, their ideas, and constantly changing scenes.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure).
Some experts claim the Web site appears to be deliberately screening out those with a low interest in spiritual subjects. Basically, it doesn't allow customers to sign up who fall outside the spiritual parameters, ... They don't really care. They have 300,000 people paying 50 a month.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered, human values can grow only in a spiritual soil.
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
I feel our church family has been open and willing to change because they feel worship is more than about opinion. It's about the heart. It can be an emotional thing, but we want to go beyond the emotions to a spiritual experience that draws you closer to God.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.