Quotes of: Christian-religion Keyword

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Warren Bennis

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of differen...

Steve Kerr

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Camille Paglia

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mark Baldwin

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

John Crowe Ransom

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Angels & Demons

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

I Capture the Castle

Well, one shouldn't smoke when he's drunk and one mustn't fall in love with a girl who isn't the right religion.

Illusions of Love

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

Joyland

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Killosophy

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

Killosophy

Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

Requiem for a Phantom God

In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

The Religion

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Sufi Thought and Action

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Speaking of Faith

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

The Nature of Jade

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura