Quotes About Religious

The community is the dimension and condition necessary for the human seed to bear fruit. For this reason, we can say that the true, the most intelligent persecution, is not the one employed by Nero and his amphitheatre of wild beasts or the concentration camp. The most ferocious persecution is the modern state's attempt to block the expression of the communital dimension of the religious phenomenon.

Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.

He ordered them to "read how you treated your King David and all pious kings, yes, the holy prophets and people, and don't treat us heathens as dogs," positioning the Jews as the enemies of the Old Testament heroes and repeatedly invoking Jesus as the Messiah who had been crucified by the Jews.

When Judas Schariot hanged himself, so that his guts ripped, and as happens to those who are hanged, his bladder burst, then the Jews had their golden cans and silver bowls ready, to catch the Judas piss (as one calls it) with the other relics, and afterwards together they ate the shit and drank, from which they got such sharp sight that they are able to see such complex glosses in Scripture."38

Human activity and hence history may be conveniently subdivided under five captions: political, economic, social, religious, and cultural.

Sacred worship is all about God.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Bahá'í teachings have certain safeguards against religious intolerance. Bahá'í writings contain statements that affirm freedom of conscience, the right to different religious beliefs, or to no religious belief. Bahá'ís are told not to discriminate in any way against those who are not Bahá'ís, and children born into Bahá'í families are free to choose their own spiritual paths.

When he returned to London he fingered and skimmed his way through a dozen religious theories of the time, but emerged in the clear (voyant trop pour nier et trop peu pour s'assurer) a healthy agnostic. What little God he managed to derive from existence, he found in nature, not the Bible; a hundred years earlier he would've been a deist, perhaps even a pantheist.

There are at least sixteen other Holy Members in Europe. Mostly from mummies, and all equally discredited. But for de Deukans it was simply a collectable, and the religious or indeed human blasphemy it represented had no significance for him. This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

Limba german? se potrive?te cu moartea a?a cum limba latin? se potrive?te cu ritualul religios.

into a single Protestant community. He had little room for an independent Scotland

Cecil believed that Parliament had the right to settle the succession to the throne on religious grounds

after Henry VIII's break with Rome and burning more than three hundred Protestants at the stake

Please, go away! Ignatius screamed. You're shattering my religious ecstasy.

Science is at all times potentially revolutionary; any new answer to a seemingly mundane question about "how" something occurs may uncover chains of causation that throw all preceding order into disarray and that threaten religious beliefs as well.

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.