If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)
Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.
The world holds two classes of men intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as a pretext to insult a religion.
The common argument is that it clearly contradicts the Koran, which says there should not be compulsion in religion.
There was nothing that would lead me to believe he would burn down a church. Russ was always very respectful of my religion. We discussed it openly, the way many people discuss politics.
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.
And all calld it, The Net of Religion
Religion without myth not only fails to work, it also fails to offer man the promise of unity with the transpersonal and eternal.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
The set of ideas that lead a culture, a religion, a court to endorse same-sex marriage are simply not sustainable over the long haul.
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you religion, pride, anything it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
a giant, a great, great soul, with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common sense of a man and compassion for people.
One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
The Universe in a Single Atom The Convergence of Science and Spirituality.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Religion must still be allowed to be a collateral security to Virtue
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Emphasis on educational and vocational rehabilitation must not be allowed to overshadow the profound need that will exist for spiritual reorientation. Inevitably there will exist, to a considerable degree, psychological maladjustments manifested in disillusionment, resentment toward civilians, depression, and a sense of guilt. Spiritual therapy available in the resources of the Christian faith can accomplish most in overcoming these problems.
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Even basic understanding about the history of Tibet will show that our differences with the Dalai Lama is not any difference about ethnic affairs or religion, ... It is not about human rights, but rather this difference is a political issue involving the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China.
Not only will this lead to confusion on the part of the students, but this is a not-so-subtle way of hiding the substantial influence of religion in the history of Western civilization. Our schools should not be in the business of hiding things from students they should be in the business of revealing things to them.
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
He was a man of peace, ... He had managed to establish a spiritual dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and other churches. We won't forget his message.
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
Devotion to the spiritual master becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion the devotion we arouse itself generates glimpses of the nature of mind, and these glimpses only enhance and deepen our devotion to the master who is inspiring us. So in the end devotion springs out of wisdom devotion and the living experience of the nature of mind becomes inseparable, and inspire one another.
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semi-human, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and in the classical sense of the word, Adivine.
Once you live with the issue of women and the landscape for a while, you find that you cannot separate them form the notions of peace, spirituality, and community. As women we must learn to become leaders in society, not just for our own sake, but for the sake of all people. We must support and protect our kinship with the environment for the generations to come.
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some Ailment in the spiritual part.
I see life as a complex geometrical phenomenon an equilibrium between science and spirituality. It is a temple of symmetry, beauty, love, the 47th proposition, vitality, infinite creations, curiosities, and vie.
Positively, my social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one however say that I have borrowed my philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has its roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha.
Let there be no mistake The Department of Justice will not tolerate acts of violence or discrimination against people in this country based on their national origin, religion or race,
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Religion is the surrender of truth to the whimsy of belief.
Iraq has several sects, religions and nationalities so this list is the best choice for the Iraqis who realize that the voting for Iraq will achieve better security, ... The sectarianism will lead to sectarian fights, which has a beginning but no end.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
Sometimes I think we ignore, or don't think about that as much. I think in these days, if you follow any business books, the spiritual dimension is becoming more important. Businesses are finding if people are spiritually sound, they perform better and those are the things we will emphasize.