Religious Quotes - Page 33

• I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Men, Light, Effort

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.53

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• The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."

  African Spir

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 40), 1937.

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• Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.

  Alfred William Howitt

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 60, 1895.

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• Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

  Jennifer Stone

  Jobs, Wings, Giving

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• The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spiritual, Men, People

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• Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Jesus, Judging, People

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• I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

  Brad Pitt

  Great Relationship, Grew Up, Grew

  "Oscar Nominee Brad Pitt On The Unmentionables: Marriage, Politics and Religion". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

  Russell Brand

  Psychosis, Government, Feelings

  "Wild emotions are all very well, Russell Brand, but then what?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2013.

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• It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Religion, Depth

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• Yet, for I know thou art religious
  And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
  With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
  Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
  Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
  An idiot holds his bauble for a god
  And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
  To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
  By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
  That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
  To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
  Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Boys, Twenties

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed”, p.697

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• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  Natascha McElhone

  Party, Thinking, Dinner

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• I am also really into religious artifacts.

  Kathleen Robertson

  Artifacts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  Nathan Gamble

  Trying, Want, Lord

  "A Conversation with Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Nathan Gamble of 'Dolphin Tale'". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.catholic.org. September 20, 2011.

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• The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Buddhism, Hands

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• I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Moral, Embryos

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• A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

  Josephus Daniels

  Men, Feet, Earth

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• Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets -- not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs.

  Barry W. Lynn

  Powerful, Rights, Air

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• Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

  Boris Sidis

  Agency, Evil, Causes

  Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”

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• [T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis, has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Christian, Egypt, Defense

  "Anacalypsis". Book by Godfrey Higgins, p. 787, 1833.

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• Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.

  Patricia Rozema

  Book, People, Justice

  "Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena". Book by Katherine Monk, 2001.

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• The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

  John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

  Political, Church, Unions

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• Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

  Ann Bridge

  Taken, Sublime, Mountain

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Sex, Judging, Wicked

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• I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Men, Opposites

  Reply to an Emancipation Memorial (1862), published in "The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln" edited by Henry Jarvis Raymond and Francis Bicknell Carpenter, (p. 255), 1865.

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• The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.

  Eileen Simpson

  Educational, Home, Opportunity

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