Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
The first and last lesson of religion is The things that are seen are temporal things that are unseen are eternal.
I've dabbled in several different religions.
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits
Religion is all bunk.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
A lot of Christians don't have someone to mentor them, coach them, and help them understand what's going to be coming at them in terms of spiritual issues.
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
Follow your cultural and religious customs in your own home, but do not attempt to impose them on society. Rather than this, love each person as your own brother or sister, not seeing him or her as belonging to another creed, religion, or country.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, But nearly all religions come from that hope.
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
The world is my country, science is my religion.
This is not supposed to be there. The government is supposed to stay out of the religion business.
For example, as a white woman, I'm shaped by my class, my gender, my race, my sex. My life is shaped by privilege as a white person, but at the same time, I may have experienced discrimination based on my gender or my religion.
Religion has great influence on people's attitudes. Most people will not take environmental issues seriously if their religion and faith doesn't honor and respect (environmental) values. That's especially true in the Middle East. It goes back to the idea of being more, not having more. For many people involved in the charter, it's more a spiritual vision of a better way of life.
They didn't start out bad. At some point they surrendered their critical thinking skills to Berg, who was a pedophile and a dirty old man. Unfortunately for me my parents signed on to his religion. So they believe heaven is in the moon whatever, have it your way. But you shouldn't abuse kids, work them like slaves and have sex with them.
I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.
All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease lack of compassion.
Terrorism cannot be linked with any religion or nation, as such approach will inevitably lead to further escalation of tenseness in the world.
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
And if they break their oaths after their agreement and (openly) revile your religion, then fight the leaders of unbelief-- surely their oaths are nothing-- so that they may desist.
I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
The basic Truth in all religions, irrespective of country or race is one and the same.
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
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