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“A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Hard Enough Religious Acceptance Hard Work Approach Deserve Performances Approval Obedient

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.”

Christian Jesus Christ Religious Strength Identity Victory Performances Accomplishment Pastor

Book:One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.”

Process Religious Performances Shoes Ritual Ballet Preparing Wrapping New Shoes

Author:Natalie Portman

“We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”

Today Used Religious Anxiety Performances Guilt Versions Secular Performance Anxiety

Author:Esther Perel

“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.”

Has Beens States Light Government Loses Church Religious Groups Policy Capacity Tradition Performances Criticize Ethical Unjust Cozy

Author:Edd Doerr

“It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.”

“True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.”

Religion Religious Materials Performances Obligation Welfare Inconsistent

Author:Mahatma Gandhi