Top 1200 Religious Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

I am that person that struggled with my identity my whole life.

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment ... ?

I think having an infant causes a bit of an identity crisis.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

In terms of identity, I'm the same person no matter what I'm doing.

The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

We are multiplicities, and none of us live single-identity lives.

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to God and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. Now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.

I am very thrilled with my newfound identity post 'Metro.'

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.