Quotes of: Religious-faith Keyword

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Jeff Hawkins

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

Rodney Stark

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Vince Vaughn

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

If you don’t know the difference between theology and religious studies, then you’re a theologian.

Life

I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

Waris Ahluwalia

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

Wole Soyinka

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

Karen Kain

Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early ...

The Da Vinci Code

Besides (said he) do you not observe what a keen Edge Christian Faith puts upon the ill-nature of Divines, when they are disputing about matters of Religion? 'Tis common for Philosophers, Lawyers, Physicians, &c. to differ about matters which concern...

An account of the growth of deism in England

The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to flo...

I, Pencil: My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Ch...

After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only...

Milan Kundera

I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself - not theologically, as to the why and wherefore of his death - but as he showed himself in his life on earth, full of grace, love, beauty, tenderness and truth. Then the needy heart c...

George MacDonald

Gareth Peirce: It's not the stairs that are killing your father. Gerry Conlon: Aye, what is it then? Gareth Peirce: It's your lack of faith. Gerry Conlon: Lack of faith? Faith in what? Gareth Peirce: In yourself. Gerry Conlon: No. I have faith in mys...

In the Name of the Father

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Native Son

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free