Top 1200 Religious Diversity Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of the Christian era? Christ's church covered the Western world by the fourth century. A religious movement built on a lie could not have accomplished that....All the power of Rome and of the religious establishment in Jerusalem was geared to stop the Christian faith. All they had to do was to dig up the grave and to present the corpse. They didn't.

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.

Coming from a pageant title that celebrates diversity, I've come to appreciate all kinds of beauty.

By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.

When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

You know who Boehner is, right? He's that orange looking guy. See, for Republicans that counts as diversity.

Increasing the diversity of what we teach is critical to providing students with a better understanding of who we are as a society and where we are going.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief.

I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity.

Diversity - both in ideas and people - has always been one of the country's greatest assets.

There's a lot of positions I like to play. I think maybe the diversity is something positive.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I was very honoured to be awarded an OBE in 2016 for my services to diversity in the fashion industry.

I think growing up, we always try to make sense of who we are, what we go through, and I grew up in a very religious household. I interpreted what was wrong with me through religious language and I concluded, probably because of a combination of forces around me, that there was something in me that God didn't like or was unhappy with. Since these problems were in large part congenital, that meant that I was doomed from the beginning. I didn't have a chance.

We need new narratives in culture, and to do a better job of showing more diversity.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.

I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.

I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.

Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.

You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.

I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.

There is no doubt that diversity is a problem in show business and that this fight has been going on for a long time.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Whenever the Congress represents the increasing diversity of the United States, that's a good thing.

Being at the first post-Weinstein Oscars was amazing. It felt like there's a spotlight on diversity.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.

I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced Republicans and Democrats alike. Ministers preached politics publicly and churches distributed the most vicious electioneering materials. Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.

It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.