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Letter "R" » Religion
«Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Metaphysics,
Religion,
Science
| Keywords:
decency, definitions, for example, measurement, measurements
«Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.»
«Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord»
Author: Jay Sekulow
| About:
Religion,
Schools
| Keywords:
began, church school, ministries, Ministry of, public schools, schools
«Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.»
«Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in the world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in a republic, the other is represented by a despotism.The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of men. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, charity- these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of Divine Grace.»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
| About:
Government,
Religion
| Keywords:
exemplified, legislated
«Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.»
«O you who believe! call to witness between you when death draws nigh to one of you, at the time of making the will, two just persons from among you, or two others from among others than you, if you are travelling in the land and the calamity of death»
«Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Immortality,
Religion
| Keywords:
immortality, nearly, religions
«O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: (Psalms 7:1)»
Author: Bible
| About:
God,
Religion,
Trust
| Keywords:
deliver, Deliver Me, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, Psalms
«Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I inquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the»
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