Top 1200 Religious Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

Any kind of religious tyranny concerns me.

If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

As a nation, we must address the persecution of all religious minorities.

Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

I grew up with a very religious background.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

Honestly, I'm, like, the least religious person in the world.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

As a child, I was deeply religious and went to church every Sunday.

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.

Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.

For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next generation or two. But religious people have been singularly uncooperative, and new strategies have developed for controlling this blight on human progress. If religion won't "wither away" as philosopher Richard Rorty has wished, then perhaps it can be privatized and thereby removed from influence on public life‚ - sort of like localizing an outbreak of the plague.

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty.

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to all to worship God beneath their own vine and fig tree, according to the dictates of their conscience. It guarantees to all the citizens of the several states the right to become citizens of any one of the states, and to enjoy all the rights and immunities of the citizens of the state of his adoption.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.