Religious Quotes - Page 244

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

Law enforcement does counter political extremism here in the United States in the exact same way that they do political extremists who are infiltrated into the United States, who may come from a religious motivation, as we saw overseas in Europe. But the same methodologies have to be used.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.

Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.

As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings, they start drawing these lines and creating confines in their life to live within certain lines.

[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother was doing - I remember when my mother graduated from beauty college, so I was about 5, and so I guess she was about 21. And I just remember being there, taking the pictures and seeing her get her diploma and everything. But she was doing hair for many years. during that time, she kind of started to discover or tap into her religious studies. It was around the time I was starting to go through puberty and hitting, like, 12, 13.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

There is no god greater than truth.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.