Top 1200 Religious Hatred Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious... spiritual but not religious.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others - the religious man laughs at himself, or at the whole ridiculousness of man's being. Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

I'm not religious. But I grew up religious in the Bible Belt.

There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion...

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.

In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

I am a God-fearing person. Ours is a religious family and I respect all religious gurus.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.