“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.” PeopleThinkingJesusReligiousSimplePracticeTaughtMajorsNegativePoliceViolentHatefulLiberatedNegative ThoughtsReligious Practices Author:Richard Rohr
“The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldDifferentWould BeReligiousPracticeEnlightenmentCardsDescriptionEnlightenedHallmarkReligious PracticesHallmark Card Author:Frederick Lenz
“The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.” ThreeEvilSexReligiousPracticeBrandsPrincipalIncarnationAvoidanceMoney And PowerReligious PracticesSamskara Author:Frederick Lenz
“A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.” MindSuccessReligiousCareersBreakPracticeBuddhismPaidBuddhistReligious Practices Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.” WaySometimesSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAnswersPracticeBuddhismBalancePhilosophicalObviousObsessionBuddhistEtiquetteAssertionOccultAccompanyReligious PracticesSpiritual Balance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.” AmericaLawBeliefPresidentReligiousPracticeAtheismDiversityPositive AtheismGuardianReligious DiversityReligious Practices Author:Walter F. Mondale
“In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.” StatesSchoolChristianReligiousPrayerPracticeStudentsCourtIncludingMissionsSupremeLocalsOfficialsOrganizedSupreme CourtPublic SchoolBannedAdministratorsReligious Practices Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.” MatterActionReligiousFreedomLibertyPracticeRestraintScopeReligious LibertyReligious Practices Author:Clarence Thomas
“What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.” MeanDoeTodayReligiousChristianityPracticeGeniusCapableSocialismReligious PracticesUprooting Author:Joseph Goebbels