Religious Quotes - Page 31

• Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

  Hosea Ballou

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Hosea Ballou (1832). “Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture”, p.216

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• Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Humble, Humility, Essence

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• The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

  Christina Stead

  Son, Knowing, People

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

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• All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.

  Deborah Tannen

  Country, Growing Up, Communication

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others”, William Morrow & Co

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• All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Roots, Political, Mind

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• I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Kids, Sunday, Church

  "To provide a surprising path through a jungle of notes". Interview with Matthew Zapruder, logger.believermag.com. June 22, 2015.

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• when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

  Lily Dougall

  Christian, Father, Men

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• All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

  J. G. Holland

  Bible, Foundation, Cost

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 36, 1895.

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• The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Country, Cities, Suggestions

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• The issue of providing women all forms of preventative health care has been and remains very important. The, the importance of protecting religious liberties in this country has been important to the president and will always be.

  Jacob Lew

  Country, Issues, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world.

  Mohammed Mahdi Akef

  Brotherhood, Islam, Movement

  Interview with the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, an international Arab daily, December 11, 2005.

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• Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Real, Healing, Thinking

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• [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

  Riane Eisler

  Art, Love Life, Men

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• Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Government, Organization

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• It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Educational, Character, Rights

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• Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

  Ricky Gervais

  Growing Up, Pain, Animal

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• People want to feel united, they want to have that religious sense they want to feel like at a rave 10,000 people at the rave are feeling the same emotions, a very primal need that's not being fulfilled in the world today.

  Robert Greene

  People, Feelings, Needs

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• I don't mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. "I prayed very hard and then the fairy came." "Did he? Good. Have a biscuit." I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. "You have to let the fairy into your heart." Look, I wouldn't let him into my garden, okay? I'd shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn't. Now have another biccie and be quiet, will you please?

  Dylan Moran

  Heart, Garden, Sight

  "What It Is". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.

  Jacob Lew

  Should Have, Usa, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.

  Russell Simmons

  Ideas, Kind, Gender

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

  Epes Sargent

  Spring, Men, Emotional

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• I have experienced racism in this country. My children have experienced racism in this country. I wouldn't say America is against me. It is not an either/or proposition. But there are some people who hold fast to certain religious beliefs.

  James Peterson

  Country, Children, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Religion, Atheism, Rubrics

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• I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.

  Veronica Roth

  Crazy, Believe, Leaving

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Religion, Riches

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