Top 1200 Religious Hatred Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Hatred is toxic to you and those around you. The condition should be treated with understanding and love until it is healed.

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.

Nobody - regardless of how they feel or behave - deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination.

People abuse for no reason, because they can do it anonymously. There's a lot of negativity, criticism and hatred as an artist grows.

Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

To the Left, Islam's anger and hatred of the West is understandable because they have legitimate grievances against us.

One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate

If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

What we experience in Colombia is fratricide, we fight ourselves and it demonstrates the priority of hatred over peace and reconciliation.

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.

In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious anti-intellectualism. Professors typically aren't given tenure at Liberty, so there's pressure to hew to the party line on religious and social issues. I didn't see a whole lot of my professors encouraging critical thinking among their students. Which isn't to say that students don't engage critical thinking skills at Liberty - just that it wasn't part of my classroom experience there.

We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Christian traditions and I was astonished to find in those writings philosophical thought of great power and sophistication. These writings completely blew away all my opinions about what I had taken to be the irrationality or immaturity of religious ideas, opinions which were and still are fashionable in many intellectual and literary circles today.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews, a religious group. But if the religious group is the subject of the persecution based on their religion, it's perfectly OK for a First Amendment-bound society to emphasize their rescue, just as it is perfectly OK to emphasize the fact that many, if not all of the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism, come from countries with a history of supporting terrorism.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.

The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism.

When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.