She came to meet me in person and she didn't find me. The kidnapping of this woman is an insult to me and to my work. To the men who are kidnapping her You know that the woman has a special status in our religion, our culture and our principles.
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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
O followers of the Book Why do you disbelieve in the communications of Allah while you witness (them) O followers of the Book Why do you confound the truth with the falsehood and hide the truth while you know And a party of the followers of the Book say Avow belief in that which has been revealed to those who believe, in the first part of the day, and disbelieve at the end of it, perhaps they go back on their religion.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.
Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
We condemn the style, the random killings. We condemn the killing of innocents anywhere, regardless of belief and religion.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Religion can be likened as a hand pointing to the moon which is God. The hand navigates us the moon, as religion helps us to understand Him a bit more. However people keep their focus on the hand instead of the moon.
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free
The message of love and peace can be spread by constant dialogue and interaction between scholars of various religions.
Sully is a really good kid. He's a real good skater. He's got good wheels and good stick-handling. He gets a lot of ice time. He can put the puck in the net, and he sets up teammates and gets a lot of assists. He's the spiritual leader of our team.
For in the next world neither father, nor mother, nor wife, nor sons, nor relations stay to be his companions, spiritual merit alone remains ,with him .
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
All good moral philosophy is but a handmaid to religion.
We think that diversity is important. Period, ... Diversity overall, whether (involving) various ethnicities, out-of-state students, international students, religions, we know all of those students bring something unique to IU.
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
I think it's pretty bizarre, ... I think you look to music to help you through (growing old), and the music that's strongest in your soul is the stuff you heard as a kid. I do that all the time. I listen to old albums and there's almost a spiritual support there.
While Islam is projected today as inimical and hostile to Christianity, Judaism and other Religions, the truth is that the Prophet was the great educator, teaching people the meaning and explanation of their own Religion, correcting and assisting them in following the right path, as taught by previous Prophets and messengers.
Love is the cheapest of religions.
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).
To spend more time in learning is better than spending more time praying the support of religion is abstinence. It is better to teach knowledge one hour in the night than to pray all night.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
I think men are lost right now. They don't know what their role is. Women have had power through the ages, and men are afraid of it. Women have gone through a tremendous amount of pain to give their gifts to the world. Religion has become a small fence around a great and glorious idea.
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
I had to stop drinking. The thing was, I didn't know how to do it. I needed to be dowsed in cold water and told not to be silly, so that's what I did in rehab-I dowsed myself in cold water and told myself not to be silly And I'm also quite spiritual, which helps me look after myself. I meditate every day, and I pray every morning and evening.
It overpowers our property that we are trying to sell and our business that has been there over 150 years. It is good to have some type of religion, as religion is good for the human soul, but I don't like people trying to shove their religion down my throat. That is overkill.
Do not belittle any religion or give predominance to any religion.
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue tohis character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to knowabout his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.
The notion of going to where the teens are in the public schools, at the movies is a very important strategy. If we sit back and wait for them to come to the classic institutions of religion, that simply isn't working.
There is the silence of a spiritual crisis,
Through which your soul, exquisitely tortured,
Comes with visions not to be uttered
Into a realm of higher life.
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
Wars have always started over religion.
We detest any form of violence related to religion, or ideology or race.
He would be a justice who's going to allow much more religious presence in government and much more government involvement in religion.
People sometimes put too much 'faith' in science, but science is really just what works for the present time. Theories are constantly refuted and challenged. Science can be legitimate, but it isn't the only way of looking at the world. In my mind, religion is as valid as science.
The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.