Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: religion

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.

Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind.

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.

There's no religion but sex and music.

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Religion is all bunk.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'