Quotes of: Religious-life Keyword

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Madame de Stael

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Malcolm Boyd

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Abraham Cahan

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Life Is Worth Living

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

Radhanath Swami

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as ...

Sam Harris

I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you.

David Beckham

rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that the...

Schrodinger: Life and Thought

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

Jon Meacham

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Ch...

Ayad Akhtar

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

The Australian Aboriginal cave paintings, from this period, are the first hints of religion that humans have as proof of religious behaviour. The caves in which the paintings are found date to 50,000 years ago through forensic geology and carbon dati...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong...

Warranted Christian Belief

While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

Saint Ignatius

They did indeed use the AM in religious rituals and AM does have deliriant and hallucinatory effects and more. This would mean not only is it linked to religion and religious social structures in the ceremony, but there is a significant link that it ...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

Matt Salmon

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

Susanne Bier

I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgotten pagan godlings, or in preferring the nasal whi...

Markham Shaw Pyle