Top 1200 Religious Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

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.

All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

People want identity, security, and jobs.

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.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

You own your identity; it is important to feel that way.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity.

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

Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

When I was 13 and looking for my identity, I was obsessed with hippies.

The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

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.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.

I'm responsible for what I say, and that is the identity for Prakash Raj.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.

If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, people will think you are mad. If you go to a church and talk to a cross or to an image, nobody will think your are mad, they will think that you are religious. You are talking to a stone in a temple and everybody thinks you are religious because this is the authorized form.

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

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.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

The American identity is mind-bogglingly various.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.