Quotes About Religious

prohibiting use of state tax dollars "directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.

chaplains are here to serve the needs of servicemembers who ask for assistance—persons struggling with personal, professional, or philosophical problems they want addressed from a religious viewpoint. They are not hired to be roving missionaries to all persons with whom they come in contact.

Liberty does not mean being given state sanction to force your own ideas—religious or otherwise—on other people. It does not mean being given a free pass from laws you don't like.

There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or "the divinization of earthly politics"—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of nearly every religious system in the world.

pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

The Society of Saint George," she said. "A devotional society of the men of this town. It is an honour to be invited to join.

medal. A religious medal to some kind of saint.

The temptation to project upon the figure of Jesus our own notions of the ideal religious personality is nearly irresistible.

Many false prophets are gone out. Are gone out, that is, are manifest. Before, they lay hid in the Church, but now, by their schisms, they have made themselves known.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

So, Spinoza went off, not as a victim or a pariah but as an independent Portuguese person living in Amsterdam. In so doing, he became one of the first people to live outside of any religious affiliation.

One person was excommunicated for buying a kosher chicken from an Ashkenazi butcher rather than a Sephardic one.

In any case, there is no reason to think that civil unions and private arrangements, religious and otherwise, cannot provide as much protection of children as official marriage does. If children need material support, that support can be required directly through legal institutions. If children need stable homes, the question is whether an official licensing scheme with the name marriage contributes enough to family stability to be worth the candle. Maybe

Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Perhaps it has never struck you how consistently the great religious teachers and founders leave home, go on pilgrimage to far-off places, do a major turnabout, choose downward mobility; and how often it is their parents, the established religion at that time, spiritual authorities, and often even civil authorities who fight against them.

The lone individual is far too small and insecure to carry either the "weight of glory" or the "burden of sin" on his or her own. Yet that is the impossible task we gave the individual. It will never work. It creates well-disguised religious egocentricity, because we are forced to take our single and isolated selves far too seriously—both our wonderfulness and our terribleness—which are both their own kinds of ego trips, I am afraid.

Humans like, need, and trust our mothers to give us gifts, to nurture us, and always to forgive us, which is what we want from God.

n the second day, God separated heaven from earth (Genesis 1:6-8). Genesis does not say that the second day was good, because it is not good to separate heaven from earth. A deep religious experience will reveal that there is only one world, one reality, and it is all supernatural.

our religious history has been too guilt-based and shame-based, and not enough of what some would call "vision logic

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

Uzzah is the picture of the self-reliant religious person who goes through the motions but doesn't get in on the dynamic love of God. We will never be fully alive if we put God in a box.

All right, Father. Those are their aims, of course. But can't you see that the Nazis are not promoting them in any such rational way? They talk about their new form of government as divinely appointed, as if it had come into existence as an act of God. They aren't pushing the political program of a party. Their acts are all cloaked in a religious fervor––the people must accept them as they accept religious laws, without doubt … Nothing else can be right.

Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life.