Quotes of: Different-religions Keyword

The ox was bad enough, Mina thought as she checked out the damage to her vegetables, yet now I have goats to torment me. However, if the goru was like the king, then the goats must be like the political parties, so maybe in the end her life won’t b...

To Revolt Is a People's Right

There is that, and there is also the Irreconcilable Differences line. It seems so catchall, so vague. You could say that about anyone, any man and woman at all. Jesus and Mary Magdalene: "Irreconcilable Differences." JFK and Jackie, anyone at all. It...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the dif...

Okay for Now

We all know - or at least we are told continuously - that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those d...

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if th...

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Cécile de Volanges: Are you saying I'm going to have to do [swallows hard] Cécile de Volanges: THAT with three different men? Marquise de Merteuil: I'm saying, you stupid little girl, that provided you take a few elementary precautions you can do i...

Dangerous Liaisons

Razia Khan: Remember one thing, son. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Good people who do good deeds. And bad people who do bad. That's the only difference in human beings. There's no other difference. Understood? What did you underst...

My Name Is Khan

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking abou...

Philip K. Dick

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

Coelebs in Search of a Wife

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

Democracy in America

La belleza existe para que podamos apreciarla, y no entiende de cultos, de religiones ni de creencias.

Dos velas para el diablo

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Deschooling Society

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

The Enemy of the Good

A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.

The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion

Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.

An Emerging Spirituality

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

English Traits

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

The Final Empire

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena