“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.” IfsKnowsStatesAmericaReligiousUnitedUnited StatesKnowingAtheismReadyExpressionEssentialsTasksCleverCharacteristicsNot KnowingJuiceOngoingDissentThrustOrthodoxyElusiveStalwartElusiveness Author:Edwin Gaustad
“The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.” PeopleMadeAgeReligiousKnowingSeeingSonChinaOld AgeChineseOdor Book:The Man Who Loved Children Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“There's only what you choose, and how you can have it. If you choose peace and joy and love, you won't get much of it through what you're doing. If you choose happiness and contentment, you'll find little of that on the path of doingness. If you choose reunion with God, supreme knowing, deep understanding, endless compassion, total awareness, absolute fulfillment, you won't achieve much of that out of what you're doing.” IfsInspirationalLittlesJoyUnderstandingReligiousCompassionKnowingPathAchieveAwarenessLove YouAnd LoveAbsolutesSupremeEndlessFulfillmentContentmentYou ChooseReunionPeace And JoyDeep Understanding Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and all of the books we've read and all of our religious experiences and what others have told us and tried to convince us of. But knowing God is when we make conscious contact.” BookStuffDifferencesReligiousKnowingConsciousContactConvinceGod KnowsKnowing GodReligious ExperienceConvince Us Author:Wayne Dyer
“Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.” MeanDoeReasonFaithUnderstandingReligiousKnowingWhere You AreReligious LoveWalk By Faith Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.” IfsMenInspirationalHeartCareChristianJoyTurnsReligiousPrayerWorryKnowingWiseProduceSakeDeedsTake CareKingdomsVainOrthodoxMisfortunesGood DeedsKingdom Of GodOwn BusinessNo WorriesTurn To GodJoy WithinHope In God Author:Seraphim of Sarov
“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.” InspirationalLittlesDreamPastSufferingTurnsEvilHeavenReligiousSinPleasureKnowingGloryConsequenceLet MeSpreadMortalsBlissGood And EvilTemporaryNot KnowingAgonyBackwardsDamnationRetrospectiveGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.” PeopleThinkingCertainReligiousKnowingEras Author:Hal Hartley
“There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'” KnowsWayHeartReasonMightChristianReligiousKnowingJudgingCircumstancesIntentionCriticizeCommandmentsCriticiseBad Intentions Author:Thomas S. Monson
“Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.” MenMindBodyWould BeJoyEnjoyReligiousPleasureKnowingSacrificeEternityIncludingBelieverFervent Author:Bertrand Russell