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[Keeping the commandments] is at once the most universally needed yet the most individualistic instruction possible.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“One that is mortal must bear adversity with a patient heart.” Tutor
Speaker: EurpiidesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Keep everything hazy in his mind now, and you will have all eternity wherein to amuse yourself by producing in him the peculiar kind of clarity which hell affords.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“We believe in the separation of Church and State, but that is not the same thing as a separation between faith and politics. Faith is what we believe, politics is how we act. We are hypocrites if we fail to act in accord with our beliefs.”
Speaker: Archbishop ChaputPosted: 14 Oct 2012 at 2:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I call you as a Catholic, to forget about the labels, be a liberal sometimes, a conservative sometimes, but a Catholic first.”
Speaker: Archbishop ChaputPosted: 14 Oct 2012 at 2:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wood, already touched by fire is not hard to light.
Speaker: African ProverbPosted: 03 Mar 2012 at 12:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.” Zooey
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
She liked that idea, God being in all things that she could see, because she liked seeing things and wanted to believe in these things that she loved looking at – loved the notion that it was all here and easily observable, with ones eyes being in some way the clergy, the connection between God and –
Speaker: Dave EggersSource: How We Are HungryPosted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Regardless of how many people still describe themselves as “Christian” in census surveys, we live in a primarily agnostic culture. Intellectually, agnosticism makes more sense. But the downside is that when people lose their convictions about the existence of God and Satan, they are less able to have personal perspectives on what’s right and what’s wrong. They are more open-minded about old taboos, but they’re also less able to see what’s obvious (and therefore susceptible to propaganda).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You hear this all the time; critics of organized religion constantly say things like, “There is no way a just God would send a man like Gandhi to hell simply because he’s not a Christian.” Well, why not? I’m certainly pulling for Gandhi’s eternal salvation, but there’s no reason to believe there’s a logic to the afterlife selection process. It might be logical, and it might be arbitrary; in a way, it would be more logical if it was totally arbitrary. But the idea of questioning God’s motives will always be a fiercely American thing to do; it’s almost patriotic to get in God’s face. I’m pretty sure a lot of my friends would love the opportunity to vote against God in a run-off election. Even I’d be curious to see who the other candidate might be (probably Harry Browne).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is something undeniably attractive about becoming a born-again Christian. I hear atheists say that all the time, although they inevitably make that suggestion in the most insulting way possible: Nothing offends me more than those who claim they wish they could become blindly religious because it would “make everything so simple.” People who make that argument are trying to convince the world that they’re somehow doomed by their own intelligence, and that they’d love to be as stupid as all the thoughtless automatons they condescendingly despise.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Speaker: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPosted: 30 Aug 2009 at 6:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Speaker: Thomas PaineSource: The Age of ReasonPosted: 02 Sep 2009 at 1:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
Speaker: Annie LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and religious narratives. We see this, of course, in the conflict concerning creation science. Some educators representing, as they think, the conscience of science act much like those legislators who in 1925 prohibited by law the teaching of evolution in Tennessee. In that case, anti-evolutionists were fearful that a scientific idea would undermine religious belief. Today, pro-evolutionists are fearful that a religious idea will undermine scientific belief. The former had insufficient confidence in religion; the latter insufficient confidence in science. The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.
Speaker: Neil PostmanPosted: 06 Jul 2009 at 9:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Speaker: Pope John Paul IISource: James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461 (http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html)Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Speaker: Irv KupcinetPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Speaker: Heywood BrounPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!