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“In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.”

Ifs Form Religious Wife Example Husband Married Deeds Coffee Cups Each Day Continuing Vow Coffee Cup Affirming Saying Yes Religious Life Marriage Vows

Author:Kevin Hart

“The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.”

Thinking Writing Kind Religious Mystery Concerned Everyday Intimacy Everyday Life Lyric Poetry

Author:Kevin Hart

“I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.”

People Thinking Needs May Christian Church Religious My Own Prayer Roles Teaching Praying Terrible Including

Author:Kevin Hart

“There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.”

Art Book Body Film Force Religious Pressure Censorship Zealot

Author:John Boorman

“I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.”

People Religious Worried

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

Ends Passion Religious Honest Introduction Prostitution True Religion Religious Love

Author:Lord Hailsham

“I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.”

Knows Guy House Religious Seeing Streets Walking Crosses Attractive Nun Iconography

Author:Rick Springfield

“I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.”

Years Ideas Earth Christian Religious Christianity Issues Regard Perceive Agendas Testament Old Testament Creationism Anti Religious

Author:Bill Nye

“People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?”

People Strong Community Religious Support Senses Mutual Mutual Support

Author:Bill Nye

“There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.”

Ifs Want Helping Growth Religious Principles Economy Economic Limits Assets Farms Limitless Thyself Neighbour

Author:Wendell Berry

“Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.”

Men Years Stills Left Religious Teaching Childhood Goes On Imaging

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.”

Political Turns Religious Solutions Weakness

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

“There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it.”

Political Jesus Differences Religious Clear Mouths Connotation Religion And Politics

Author:Reza Aslan

“There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.”

Knows Certain Religious Existence Leader Principles Influence Modern Duty Determine Noble Expected Our Time Cowardice Religious Faith Public Life Schizophrenic Modern Politics

Author:Stephen Mansfield

“It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.”

Ifs Would Be Religious Moral Danger Conviction Experiments Free Society Sad Things

Author:Pope John Paul II

“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.”

“Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.”

World Giving Book Law Religious Strange Unique Details Limitation Reasonable Customs Notable American Woman Eerie Panache

Author:Gilbert Sorrentino

“I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.”

Men Want Littles Helping Religious Vision Sun Goes On Praying Medicine Traditional Appeals Indian Sweat Quests Ceremony Lodges

Book:On the Rez

Source: On the Rez

“I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.”

Wish Religious Insult

Author:Martin Rees

“I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.”

Thinking Needs Should Fighting Belief Religious Leader Particular Agree Threat Extremes Allies Fundamentalism Moderates Rubbish Religious Belief Muster Religious Leaders Canterbury

Author:Martin Rees

“Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.”

Religious Poetry Is Appreciated

Author:A. E. Housman

“I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.”

Thinking Religious Christianity Band Catholicism Symbolism

Author:Chino Moreno

“The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.”

Men Religious

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.”

Should Care Able Individual Belief Religious Decision Female Employee Boss Bedroom Employers Religious Belief Reproductive Health

Author:Dina Titus

“When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.”

Left Religious Wings Humanism Jew Secular Judaism Ethnicity Left Wing Secular Humanism

Author:Dennis Prager

“The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.”

Christian Left Religious Anti Religious Anti Christian

Author:Dennis Prager

“If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?”

Ifs Needs Law Passion Names Social Born Religious Behavior Greed Hunger Obvious Envy Lust Narcissism Secular Meanness Anti Social

Book:A Dark Time in America

Source: A Dark Time in America

“You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life. Or, if we talk about it, we'll find a secular way of doing it that will not be offensive to people of non-belief. So, that you go through life with these alternate voices.”

People Ifs Way Two America Belief Speak Voice Religious Secular Offensive Discourse Two Ways Religious Life Public Discourse

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“Whether any surfer wants to admit it or not, I think we've all had moments like looking at nice waves coming through the lineup maybe, only for a moment, feeling that we are in the presence of something holy. There is a spiritual-ness when you actually get in harmony with something as natural as the waves and the ocean, and yeah, it is definitely a religious experience.”

Thinking Want Moments Feelings Spiritual Natural Religious Nice Holy Ocean Harmony Yeah Wave Surfer Religious Experience

Author:Gerry Lopez

“Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.”

“I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.”

Philosophy Religious Study Photography Religious Studies

Author:Ryan Lewis

“Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.”

People Sometimes Religious Moral Beastly

Book:What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”

Humans Religious Situation Moral Environment Behavior Training Genes Human Behavior External Environment

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.”

Religious Areas Religious Humor

Author:Chris Lilley

“In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?”

Ifs Men Long Would Be Religious Party Boys Mines He Man Periods Manhood Ceremony Impressive Supplies Bragging Brag Gloria Menstruation Sanitary Tampons

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.”

“Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.”

Should Community Religious Eternal Elsewhere Eternal Life Religious Community

Author:Matt Salmon

“And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.”

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Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“Tobacco and religious organisations.”

Religious Tobacco Organisation

Author:Mark Bradford

“A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.”

“Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.”

Religious Figures Boring Chosen Mice Colony

Author:Mira Grant

“My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.”

Religious Enemy Wings Fundamentalism Right Wing Religious Fundamentalism

Author:William J. Clinton

“Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich.”

“Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.”

Humans Has Beens Real Religious Human Beings Structure Isolated Real Human

Author:Youssef Ziedan

“I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.”

People Way Doe Order Religious Military Depends Discipline Shapes I Realized Routine

Author:Kit Reed

“Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.”

Religious Groups Deeper Lifestyle Ideology Alternatives Controversy Examination

Author:James R. Lewis

“If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe its inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.”

People Ifs Want Should Believe Sex Religious Liberty Cherish Religious Freedom Inappropriate Religious Liberty

Author:Foster Friess

“The function of the church for both young and old is not to give us on Sundays certain kinds of experiences different from experiences of the every day. The function of the church is rather to teach us how to put religious and ethical qualities into all kinds of experiences.”

Giving Kind Different Young Certain Church Religious Quality Teach Function All Kinds Sunday Ethical Young And Old

Author:Sophia Lyon Fahs

“Ive always been a religious person.”

Persons Religious Religious Person

Author:Chuck Pagano

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