“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.” YearsFirstsDifferentMomentsLightLastsWinningHoursReligiousDarknessSunImagineEventsMoonWorshipSpringDrawsTraditionFollowingFixedDramaticSundayCosmicRootedEasterParallelsFull MoonReligious TraditionsEquinoxSun God Author:Tom Harpur
“There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.” DifferentPoliticalCultureReligiousLossPovertyDespairRiversGenderFanaticismRepressionApartheid Author:Lawrence Wright
“All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.” KnowsDoeDifferentRealSoulFormSpeakReligiousTongueQuarrelsReligious ExperienceDifferent Religions Author:Swami Vivekananda
“It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.” DifferentFactsScienceDifficultTermReligiousClearTheoryMathematicalPrecisePropositionsScientific TheoryScientific TruthReligious Truth Book:Essays in Science Source: Essays in Science
“We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.” DifferentTogetherMovingReligiousWasteTraditionBoatOur TimeReligious TraditionsGet Moving Author:David Steindl-Rast
“The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldDifferentWould BeReligiousPracticeEnlightenmentCardsDescriptionEnlightenedHallmarkReligious PracticesHallmark Card Author:Frederick Lenz
“The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.” TwoImportantDifferentGovernmentFacesPoliticalDifferencesChurchReligiousDutyOfficeIdealsRealmsSubtleReligious FaithImplementation Book:The Jimmy Carter Library Source: The Jimmy Carter Library
“Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God's sake?” MenDoeDifferentReligiousMoralHe ManMoralitySakeSentimentsInwardObscureTruestIllusoryReligious Love Author:Max Stirner
“Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.” WritingBookDifferentLawLanguageReligiousSentencesCeaseGrammarDifferent Books Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.” WorldNeedsDifferentSocialReligiousSpaceCommonExistenceGroupsConflictAgreeSignificantContributionCanadaGovernanceHarmoniousDissensionSocial GroupsAgree Upon Author:Aga Khan IV
“Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is for the Christian community to wake up, wipe the sleep from their eyes, and realize that they are in a spiritual battle that isn't going away and has no demilitarized zones. The rainbow is a symbol, but it's meaning points to the very character of God. So Christians, use this God-given symbol for His glory. Using it won't make you a homosexual.” WantDifferentCharacterUseEyeChristianSpiritualGivenRealizingCommunityReligiousSleepBattleGloryWake UpSymbolsZoneGoing AwayRainbowHomosexualWipeChristian CommunityCharacter Of God Author:Ken Hutcherson