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Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.
The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
Heaven-as you call it-is nowhere. Let's just put some space between the w and the h in that word and you'll see that heaven is now...here.
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.
There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.
The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.
If I were a weaker man, I would have quit. Something is testing me, I'm not a religious man, so I'm not going to throw the God word around.
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.
Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.
Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.