Quotes of: Religious-life Keyword

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

Eat, Pray, Love

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.

Bluebeard's Egg

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

The Book of My Lives

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

Timothy Garton Ash

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

Ravi Zacharias

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Clive Bell

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

Catherine Hicks

You don't have to be religious to hear God, you just have to be willing, and there's a big difference between the two.

The Achilles Heel

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Tom Wolfe

If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.

I Love You Too

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Molecular Biology of the Gene

The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.

Major Themes of the Qur'an

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

Lullabies for Little Criminals

I don't impressed if you're a religious person. I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

Sincerely, Andy Rooney

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

Spiral Road

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Toast

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.

Voice of Reason

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

The World As I See It