Quotes About Religious

How come you know when Easter is?" and he had replied: "Because it's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the twenty-first day of March, obviously." It had been a mistake to add "obviously," because Erman had punched him in the stomach for being sarcastic.

Ces mots semblèrent la décider. Elle soupira. Tu me demandes, à moi qui ai des responsabilités importantes dans un couvent de quarante religieuses, dix novices et vingt-cinq serviteurs, avec une école, un hospice et une pharmacie, de tout quitter pour prendre soin d'une petite fille que je n'ai jamais vue?

El tono de un gobierno lo establecían quienes ocupaban sus puestos más altos, y Bak no estaba sino imitando el estilo del líder supremo, que hacía gala de la terca superioridad de un fanático religioso.

One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was Jon's momma used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury every time Jon's daddy would come home boozed. Jon never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing, same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry, booze come to be something holy to him and with faith like that Jon grew up religious as a deacon.

Obsérvese que no estoy afirmando que la física moderna sostenga o demuestre una visión mística del mundo. Lo único que estoy diciendo es que esos físicos eran místicos, no que su disciplina fuera un quehacer místico o espiritual que conduzca a una visión religiosa del mundo.

O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.

How like a fawning publican he looks!I hate him for he is a Christian.

Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.

When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?

Spanish Expulsion and its ripples One of the great disruptions experienced by Jews prior to the modern age occurred in Spain with the Edict of Expulsion in 1492.

I would name these connections to impress you with the extent to which I am deeply burrowed into the leading circles of my religious community but, well, that would be insufferable in its own way, don't you think?

It seems ironic to acknowledge that a Catholic Mass almost certainly contains more Scripture than the average evangelical service.

My impression is that Australia is the nation whose dynamics in relation to evangelicalism—in terms of both religious life and worldly politics—most resemble those of the United States.

One of the biggest challenges for people involved in interfaith dialogue is to break down the stereotypes of the "other" that exist within their own religious traditions and groups. Religious groups need to first acknowledge and confess their own role in fostering and contributing to injustice and conflict. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 49)

The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52)