Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.
I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
I'm not a religious person; I'm more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture.
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.
Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man man man man Give yourself up to this art where the sublime does not exclude charm and brilliancy does not blur the nuance it is now or n...
If a rich man eats a snake people say, "This is wisdom!" If a poor man eats a snake people say, "This is folly!"
The wise man is father of the fool.
