Choose your friends wisely. They will provide the foundation of spiritual strength that will enable you to make difficult, extremely important decisions correctly when they come in your life. Above all, be a friend of the Savior.
Choose your friends wisely. They will provide the foundation of spiritual strength that will enable you to make difficult, extremely important decisions correctly when they come in your life. Above all, be a friend of the Savior.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
We will not tolerate the interference of religion in our justice system.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
This ad shows no disrespect for women. On the contrary, the woman is the spiritual and physical trainer for the warrior and is his mentor, preparing him for the competition.
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
The deepest expression of spirituality is love.
In our own religion, in our own country.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
When you're in a country like that - the architecture, everything is infused with the importance of religion. The art itself is just incredible. The architecture, the painting, the sculpture.
The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Yoga is not a religion to me.
Unfortunately, these traditions are so deeply rooted among people that in some cases they are placed before the religion. People believe and practice traditions that destroy women they consider women as elements whose only duty is to give birth to children. And the other problem is the patriarchal view that is prevalent in the society.
I wanted someone young, but not a pretty boy I wanted a big, strong manly man -- a proper man -- because of what Elizabeth Bennet is going through. The whole process of falling in love -- from the physical and the emotional to the intellectual to the spiritual -- and to the way it changes your perceptions. ... That's what I tried to capture.
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitute of religion and virtues is void of any blessing.
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
He it is Who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the polytheists may be averse.
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
As we see this work move forward and move on, I would only declare to you as I stand before you today that in those 90 and more years that Ive had, as Ive witnessed and felt and seen and been part of the spiritual experiences that have been mine, that this is the work of the Lord. Its just as has been revealed. Ive sensed it and I feel it, and I so declare to you.
The most important thing is practice in daily life then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices, you cannot gain its value.
This guide offers a third choice. Treat religion with fairness and respect. Keep the government neutral in matters of religion, not promoting religion or denigrating it.
... true religion was never a narrow thing. True religion concerns man and the entire universe in which he lives. It concerns his relationships with himself and his fellow men, with his environment, and with God his creator. It is therefore limitless, and as boundless as that eternity which it teaches lies ahead of every son of God.... Here is the spirit of true religion, an honest seeking after knowledge of all things of heaven and earth.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
Confronting people's wishes and ignoring people's demands in the name of religion ... will only create disappointment among the young generation in the Islamic Republic and, God forbid, their religion,
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
I don't ever talk about it, ... There are some Christians (co-workers) who argue I'm doing something bad, but this (lawsuit) is pro-liberty, pro-equality. The government is required to stay out of the religion business.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Because God is indefinable, because God's wisdom is beyond measure, no one religion can contain it in its entirety. Therefore, God has inspired the birth of many religions, each one offering its own unique view of eternal truth.
Hence the spiritual weariness of the conscientious mother - you're always finding out just one more vital tidbit.
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.
All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.
Religion is also quite different. Each faction has their own gods, and choosing which gods to build temples to becomes a major decision.
. . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The best religion is the most tolerant.
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends
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