Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Everyone here has been so warm and welcoming. I know in my heart, from a spiritual point of view, that this is going to be my place.
Really only two things in life are definate, religion and war, in perfect harmony.
To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.
But what about religious youngsters who find themselves in a public school hermetically sealed off from all religious influences Would not the school, and therefore the government, tacitly be communicating to religious youngsters that prayer, religion, and faith are not really welcome in America's public square That is where we have ended up Court-sanctioned hostility to religious influence in American society, all in the name of neutrality.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
I believe religion is a major malfunction. It's the Titanic of planet Earth, and without question, Robin Hood in reverse.
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
Part of the church's opposition might have been its pagan connotations. All along, the church has been uncomfortable with what I would call folk religion. But they could do little to stop it.
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
The law of the land is clear that you must have a separation of church and state. Any religion should be practiced in homes or places of worship, not in public schools.
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character.
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
I make bad habits suicidal, hit it like a wave no heat no tidal, marry the cross, spiritual life bridal, never do the deed for the fame or the title.
How could science be any enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it.
President James E. Faust has noted that in contrast to earlier, God-fearing times' a new civil religion seems to be developing in America. He said The civil religion I refer to is a secular religion. It has no moral absolutes. It is nondenominational. It is non-theistic. It is politically focused. It is antagonistic to religion. It rejects the historic religious traditions of America. It feels strange. If this trend continues, non-belief will be more honored than belief. While all beliefs must be protected, are atheism, agnosticism, cynicism, and moral relativism to be more safeguarded and valued than Christianity, Judaism, and the tenets of Islam, which hold that there is a Supreme Being and that mortals are accountable to him If so, this would, in my opinion, place America in great moral jeopardy.
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
We condemn any such actions, whichever side they may come from. We also condemn such provocative cartoons, which add to the division between religions, insult the feelings of believers and provoke them.
O Nanak, the Guru is the tree of contentment, with flowers of faith, and fruits of spiritual wisdom. Watered with the Lord's Love, it remains forever green through the karma of good deeds and meditation, it ripens.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
the flow, the changing nature of water -- that's the way I think religion should flow.
The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future- certianly none for the Germans. Facism, if it likes, may come to terms with the Church. So shall I. Why not That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and annihilating it in Germany.
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Religion is a necessary, an indispensable element in any great human character. There is no living without it. Religion is the tie that connects man to his Creator, and holds him to his throne.
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.
an unprecedented and overt ... merger of the church and state, of religion and politics.
And thus did We rouse them that they might question each other. A speaker among them said How long have you tarried They said We have tarried for a day or a part of a day. (Others) said Your Lord knows best how long you have tarried. Now send one of you with this silver (coin) of yours to the city, then let him see which of them has purest food, so let him bring you provision from it, and let him behave with gentleness, and by no means make your case known to any one For surely if they prevail against you they would stone you to death or force you back to their religion, and then you will never succeed.
A chaplain is trained to talk to anybody of any faith, not to become the patient's minister. My own religion doesn't need to enter the conversation. I'm there as a friend I'm there for the patient.
We place no reliance on virgin or pidgeon.Our method is science, our aim is religion.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
There is spirit in the soul, untouched by time and flesh, flowing from the Spirit, remaining in the Spirit, itself wholly spiritual. In this principle is God, ever verdant, ever flowering in all the joy and glory of His actual.
Religions get lost as people do.
Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.