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Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)
lead in promotion of spirituality and compassion for humanity.
I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.
I like it because it is the best combination of the physical, the spiritual and the mental all in one place, ... You go to other places that just get physical, you can go to Bible study and just get spiritual, but here you can kind of do both.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
How can such a man be chased away in a world full of churches, where there are clans and clans, groups and groups of priests, quacks, gurus, ministers, pastors, rabbis, muftis and other representatives of the cults Dont they represent mans devotion to the church, dont they serve religion What people serve today is not a religion of the man that would identify him with his own divinity, but a religion that identifies man to the salve of an external divinity, as if it not man who knows this world, but the external divinity. Lets assume that the external divinity knew this world which would be independent of mans ephemeral existence. Then why does this world disappear with the man Because it is his world. The world of the dinosaurs existed when there were not people, we have relics of that time. Who dreamed the world of the dinosaurs It was the current man too, when he discovered it, because dinosaurs saw it completely different from what the man sees, and eve if man existed at the time, the dinosaurs would have still seen it different, as animals or birds, fishes or reptiles do.
I would say that all the themes of the book are there from the beginning, including the individual, the social, magic, religion, and also science,
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
This is a case that is not under the competence of the United States. It is under the competence of the Afghan authorities. We hope that the Afghan constitution is going to be upheld and in our view if it is upheld, he will be found to be innocent ... from an American point of view people should be free to choose their own religion.
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
We're in the middle of a spiritual battle but also in the middle of a cultural war. Your generation is being pounded with sexual messages. ... All the messages being sent through the movies, the Internet, point-and-click pornography. It's literally destroying your generation.
What has been the fruit of religion Pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
In my opinion, this decision is unconstitutional. The government has no business telling people how they should perceive evolution and religion.
In this context religion means the religion of love. This is the only religion in the world. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity.
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
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.
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world
a healthy secularism of the State, by virtue of which temporal realities are governed according to their own norms but which does not exclude those ethical references that are ultimately founded in religion.
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him which is his truth, which is his soul the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
LA WESLEY BONITA The Material Girl has stepped onto the political stage and endorsed Clark. I think he has a good handle on foreign policy, I think he's good with people, and I think he has a heart and a consciousness, ... He's interested in spirituality -- I mean, those things mean a lot to me.
They have created a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets.
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
Jihad is part of my religion. What you have to understand is that anyone who fights on behalf of Allah, when he dies, the first drop of blood that comes out, all of his sins will be forgiven.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about 'everything that is,' for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a 'planetary agenda' for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.
The play has taken on a greater height of spirituality. He didn't make it. That was a painful thing, but it feels absolutely right that we are here. His family is here. His people are here.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
We want to provide more holistic, spiritual care, ... Part of providing good health care is spiritual care.
To me the truth is such an essential element in spiritual life, ... It's not only respected, it's sought for . . . Maybe I was feeling a little nave, but I just expected more from priests and rabbis and religious-based organizations in their consideration of this case.
Not only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits , those who expound to the people gathering fame, use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises, they benefit by the scholarship, but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.
I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
Concertgoers, the two say, can expect both contemporary and old-fashioned Judd grooves. I think the production, technology-wise, is with the times, ... yet we have the family values. ... It's sort of like, it's OK to be hip and spiritual, and it's OK to be weird.
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
What the world craves today is a more spiritual and less formal religion. To the man or woman facing death, great conflict, the big problems of human life, the forms of religion are of minor concern, while the spirit of religion is a desperately needed source of inspiration, comfort and strength. (John
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.