Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: religion

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.

Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private.

Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.

I feel like 'Leftovers' is dealing with subject matter that's kind of taboo when you're talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

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.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.

I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.