Quotes of Religious - somelinesforyou

“ We are aiming for political pluralism with a broad spectrum of parties - ranging from the left to the religious parties, as is the case in Israel. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. ”

- Bruce Kent

“ Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. ”

- Bernard Devoto

“ In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. ”

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

“ The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it. ”

- Unknown

“ I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ The habit does not make the monk. ”

- John Dryden

“ And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day… ”

- Lord Byron

“ I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious — except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force. ”

- Mark Twain

“ No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ”

- Christopher Columbus

“ There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ”

- William James

“ This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. ”

- Voltaire

“ Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven! ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Morality and its victim, the mother — what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? ”

- Emma Goldman

“ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. ”

- Charles Stanley

“ When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. ”

- Gerard de Nerval

“ When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ He has a deep awareness of music like (Thelonious) Monk, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock and Wayne (Shorter). ”

- Carlos Santana

“ If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is "holy war". ”

- Steve Allen
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