Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: religion

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Religion is just mind control.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

My religion is inclusivity.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

I'm not really into religion.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

The thing you miss most, when you don't play and you don't coach, is the huddle. You miss the huddle. You miss the ability to walk in the room where collectively players are from everywhere. Every race, every religion, every color. It don't matter, because you've got a common goal. You're trying to be something special as a team.

The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

Balenciaga was my religion. Since I'm a believer, for me, there's Balenciaga, and the good Lord.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example.

The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive.