“I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingTwoGodAbleChristianThreeLanguageHeavenReligiousMy OwnConceptsAccountsCurrentsLimitationDimensionsAppropriateDescriptionVocabularyNear DeathPortrayalNear Death Experience Author:Mary C. Neal
“My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.” I CanSpiritualBeliefReligiousMy OwnViewsPoint Of ViewBelief SystemsSpiritual Beliefs Author:John Frusciante
“I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.” NeedsSpiritualChurchReligiousMy OwnThreadMosquesSynagogue Author:Ron Perlman
“My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.” BelieveMeanPersonsSpiritualI BelieveReligiousMy OwnOpinionTeachingMastersGeniusHeroPeriodsDegreesUltimatePhrasesOfferingPersuasionHypeSpiritual Masters Author:Ken Wilber
“I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member, I'm not a dope dealer, I don't have multiple babies momma's. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn't need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It's in my DNA.” MenNeedsChoicesLostReligiousMy OwnMilitarySonBrotherBabyHonorMembersEthicsCommitmentStuckCodeGood LifeRapperMultipleDnaBetrayedNavyGangDealerDopeInstillEthosMommaMilitary ServiceGang MembersTrue NorthShorelineCode Of Ethics Author:Christopher Dorner
“My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.” ThinkingWayReligiousMy OwnRolesConnectionsPersonal Connection Author:Amber Tamblyn
“Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.” MadeChristianReligiousMy OwnCareersAtheismEffectsFiguresNotionPositive AtheismBackgroundsIllegalRidiculeAghast Author:Rowan Atkinson
“My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.” MomentsSpeakLanguageGivenReligiousMy OwnViewsSpeaks French Author:Susan Sontag
“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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMayChristianChurchReligiousMy OwnPrayerRolesTeachingPrayingTerribleIncluding Author:Kevin Hart
“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.” MindChildrenI CanMatterReasonEyeReligionReligiousMy OwnEducationJudgmentPrejudiceInstructionCastingFilling Book:Works: Account of His Life and Letters Source: Works: Account of His Life and Letters
“Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.” FirstsGovernmentChristianCommunityReligiousMy OwnMoralIntellectualLifetimeFederal GovernmentAssaultHostilityChristian Faith Author:Jesse Helms
“Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.” ThinkingTryingHeartIdeasTogetherFatherImaginationReligiousMy OwnGoneDadExpectationsAngryMy DadDamageTruthfulAltruismMy ImaginationProjectionReconcileLove And Forgiveness Author:William P. Young