“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
“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.” MayFormReligiousAcceptingDemocracyCriticalBelieverCeaseReasonableRestraintDiscourseModernityMaintenanceNon BelieverLiberal Democracy Author:Andrew Sullivan
“But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!” IfsMenFeelingsHumanityOrderNationsCausesReligiousHalfTroubleBloodAtheismProveFundamentalsOneselfPositive AtheismCeaseRecallsBe A ManPietyOther Half Author:Denis Diderot
“Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.” IfsWorldNeedsReligionReligiousCryCeaseSatisfiedNoiseVain Author:Isaac Hecker
“A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.” IdeasReligiousPainfulCeaseDistinguishedUpbringingAfter DeathCognitiveDualism Author:Mario Bunge
“When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes kin to the Apostles, the Prophets, and all the Saints and Righteous Ones, then she is irresistibly drawn to that world, and cannot remain, but is bothered, and thirsts, and cannot cease from prayer, and although the body becomes exhausted and wants to lie down on a bed, even while lying in bed the soul longs for the Lord and the Kingdom of the Saints.” KnowsWorldWantInspirationalSoulBodyChristianSpiritLyingMotherReligiousPrayerLordHolyBedSaintCeaseKingdomsHoly SpiritProphetOrthodoxRighteousThirstExhaustedBotheredApostles Author:Silouan the Athonite