Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: religion

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

God save us from religion.

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Setting aside moral considerations, those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The terrorists' explicit hope has been to try to provoke a clash of civilizations - telling Muslims that the United States is at war with them and their religion.

Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

One may fall in love anytime and with anyone. One does not decide that based on caste, religion or gender.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.