I think that public schools should not be allowed to teach any religion. The question is not whether to teach Islamic religion, but that we shouldn't teach the Catholic one either.
I think that public schools should not be allowed to teach any religion. The question is not whether to teach Islamic religion, but that we shouldn't teach the Catholic one either.
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
Who are the Saints They are people who succeeded in loving more than others did, that found more or less the Path of the Sacred Self, the path to the spiritual fulfilment. They are humans that have come to understand that only by walking down the path of
I think people are hungry for things of a spiritual nature. The show hit its stride on a Sunday evening, and that's no accident.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich. (Napol
It is wrong to brand a whole people. Criminal and terrorists have neither nationality or religion.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science.
Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing characteristic of sovereignty and power. That is to say, the less a person knows how to command, the more urgent is his desire for one who commands, who commands sternly - a God, a prince, a caste, a physician, a confessor, a dogma, a party consciene. From whence perhaps it could be inferred that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, might well have had the cause of their rise, and especially of their rapid extension, in an extraordinary malady of the will.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Like a lamp lit in the darkness, the spiritual wisdom of the Guru dispels ignorance.
Gay, committed, celibate priests and seminarians, and bishops, too, that happen to be gay, are going to find this instruction a source of spiritual pain,
. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
... the degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
Religion... is the opium of the people.
Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Indeed as Jalaluddin Rumi also says, each of our eternal individualities is a word, a divine Word, emitted by the Breath of Divine Compassion. When this Word penetrates the mystic's heart... that is, when the 'secret of his Lord' unfolds to his consciousness, when divine inspiration invests his heart and soul, 'his nature is such that there is born within him a spiritual Child (walad manawi) having the breath of Christ which resuscitates the dead.'
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
We believe in a biblical model of leadership in the home ... which is the man is a spiritual leader of his home and ought to lead by example spiritually in the home,
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
She was a spiritual leader, not a celebrity, who I feel gave her life, as Martin gave, to service mankind.
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
I put a lot of effort into writing A Briefer History at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. That is, he does not draw on a reservoir instead, he engages in an activity that brings to him a whole succession of unforeseen stories, poems, essays, plays, laws, philosophies, religions . . .
I was inspired by the people who devote their life to their religion, in each case, whether you agree with them or not, trying to do good.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Those who worship and adore the Name of the Lord are rid of their suffering and sins. The True Guru has placed the sword of spiritual wisdom in my hands, I have overcome and slain the Messenger of Death.
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.
It's not another treatment of a day in the life of LDS missionaries. This time, it's LDS missionaries who are part of a much larger story. It's more of an ensemble film that has characters from different religions, and no religions, and how their lives intertwine in present-day Santa Monica. . . . It's very much designed not to just be accessible to Mormon Christianity, but hopefully embraced by all Christians.
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
Basketball is a great sport. Baseball is a religion, and I truly believe that. Ask 10 people what was the first basketball game they went to and whom did they go with, then ask them what was the first baseball game and whom they went with, and there's a good chance that all 10 will remember the baseball and none of them will remember the basketball or the football or the hockey.
Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.
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