Quotes of: Religious-man Keyword

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

Once the Church denies her ontological identity-- what she really, essentially is as an existential event whereby individual survival is changed into a personal life of love and communion-- then from that very moment she is reduced to a conventional ...

The Freedom of Morality

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

John Tyler

You have heard that evil is a perversion of the good. The greatest goods can be perverted into the greatest evils. The poor man has not the opportunities for covetousness and self-indulgence which the rich man enjoys. The unlettered man has not the o...

The Devil's Hunting Grounds

Normally, we think of the religious as people who care , not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.

Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one...

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

Uri Geller

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

Why I Love My Prozac: The Ideologies of an Ordinary Family Man

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely amon...

The World As I See It

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Hal Holbrook

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

Edward McKendree Bounds

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

Simon Greenleaf

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

Listen, Little Man!

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

A Man Without a Country

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledg...

Emile Durkheim

[...] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress. The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance and superstition, the less is his sens...

An Atheist Manifesto

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Muhammad Iqbal