“But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.” LightReligiousWalksFailingFeetWindowAnd LoveDuesProofPaleRoofCastingPillarsAntiquesStudious Book:Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems Source: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems
“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.” LoveGivingTryingBelieveGodCareChristianFaithFatherBeliefI BelieveWaitingReligiousWalksEffortChristianityCourageFailingFieldsFailureGiving UpI Believe InCaringPunishmentGod LoveHeavenlyUrgesTallRejoiceCommandmentsNot Giving UpNever Giving UpDiscouragedKeep TryingHeavenly FatherStumblingFleeing Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.” PoliticalReligiousFailingJudgingIntegrityAuthorityStandardsConsciencePhilosophicalOrthodoxDelicacy Author:Lord Acton
“The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.” ThinkingShouldDoeImportantMatterGovernmentChristianBeliefReligiousJusticeFailingAtheismPositive AtheismChiefsDesperateShorePledgeAllegianceReligious BeliefPledge Of AllegianceChief Justice Author:Ed Buckner
“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.” MenWellsHelpingUseChristianPastUsedReligionFatherLanguageReligiousFailingConvictionObstaclesTheologyVocabularyGrammarKnowledge And ExperienceChristian TheologyScholastics Author:Lily Dougall
“In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.” HumansCharacterFactsCultureReligiousFailingDramaSickMedicineIllnessMedicalInevitableNarrativeImmortalityVulnerabilityTreatmentAggressiveHeroicQuestsParticipantsInadequacyPathology Author:Suzanne Gordon
“Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayGivingPersonsArtEndsCertainSportsReligiousKnow HowFailingFunctionMeaningfulGravesAwfulMeaning Of LifeNonsenseMeaninglessLife Means Author:Woody Allen
“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.” MenFirstsMadeActionCertainReligionEvilReligiousPrinciplesVirtueFailingFailurePerformingRighteousVirtuous Author:Martin Luther
“You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.” MightChristianValuesReligiousFailingSucceedWorried Book:America's Real War Source: America's Real War
“I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.” KnowsMenWayShowsMightReligiousLordWifeFailingSeriousDutyAnxietyMeetingsPrivilegeVariousNeglectPardonMisgivings Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse