Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: religion

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

I'm not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism's 'social naturalism' (the claim that all beliefs have their origins in social practice) and religion's supernaturalism (the claims that its beliefs are underwritten by divine will).

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Only a god can save us.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

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.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and reaction and often is the least important of those factors.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion - and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.