Top 1200 Religious Differences Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord's Church and man-made institutions.

Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.

I have encountered thousands of value investors over the years and am constantly struck by their differences - and their similarities.

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

There have always been small anti-Korea movements, and I think it's all due to cultural differences.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's pretty interested in selling your worldly goods and storing up riches in heaven. However, religious fundamentalists have made it all about sex, and that's like saying, "Look at the sex and we're just not going to talk about what you may be doing in a financial way that is sinful."

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry.

I've learned never to generalise and that regardless of our differences, we all share the same fundamental human experiences.

You always have to come from the element of 'What do you have in common?' first. It makes it easier to work through your differences.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

If you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you have differences, you can find common ground on a way forward.

Kesha and I made a lot of songs together and it was often good but there were creative differences at times.

At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.

I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights.

Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

You need to stop caring what people who don't matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.