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Letter "R" » Religion
«The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion»
Author: Lord Hailsham
(Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
introduction, Introduction to, prostitution
«The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
becoming, cheerful, religious
«The greatest religions convert the world through stories.»
«The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Death and dying,
Religion,
Society
| Keywords:
buttress, buttresses, buttressing, punishment, terrified
«The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
belief, christ, Christianity, dogma, gateway, gateways, intricate, labyrinth, labyrinths, The Gateway
«The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| About:
Problems,
Religion
| Keywords:
combine, expansion, identity, in other words, militant, mystic, social action, The Search
«The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Art,
Religion
| Keywords:
artist, devout, highest, religious, religious person
«The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God»
«The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Judgement,
Power,
Religion
| Keywords:
aspirations, inadequately, Jewish
«The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Historians,
Religion
| Keywords:
conduce, conduced, conduces, discredit, discredited, Eusebius, ingenuously, omitted, piously, tended, tended to
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