If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
David Friedrich Strauss
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des... PAUL RICœUR Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des... PAUL RICOEUR Unity is vital for all, wherever they are and whatever their country, religion or sex. Love should... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If ... DADA BHAGWAN Religion has no work in justifying the man-made imaginations, hallucinations and delusions of the wo... ABHIJIT NASKAR [THE DAILY BREATH] In today's world we seem to have a conflict between science and the ex... DRAGOS BRATASANU Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion e... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everythi... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON Spirituality is not making walls in the names of religions and prophets but to make more roads and b... AMIT RAY The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own o... JA RULE The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other word... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can ex... AMISH TRIPATHI Religion is the biggest drama, the man has ever written and the God is the best character, the man h... NEIL JAIN Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a b... SUZY KASSEM If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i... MAHATMA GANDHI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains t... EMMA GOLDMAN Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individua... SIGMUND FREUD Love for humanity & not religion should be the constitution guiding every nation,because if we choos... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of... JEREMY GILLEY In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. I... SAID NURSI If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ... THOMAS PAINE Only the Maker makes a man. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! V.C. ANDREWS Religion means life. Religion means true service in love to man and God. Religion means what ought t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plur... IRVING BABBITT Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ... C. JOYBELL C. I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a... ELIZABETH GILBERT Any law that belittles God is man made. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might... STEPHENIE MEYER As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, an... STEPHEN HARPER Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religi... FRANK HERBERT The one ultimate rule of the Quranic fundamentalists is “there is one God and Mohammed is his prop... ABHIJIT NASKAR I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin... SIGMUND FREUD The religion of God is to bring peace and love to the world...killing Man is not part of God's Relig... FRANCIS MATHEW Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the ack... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him ... CHARLES HORTON COOLEY I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The questi... GLENN MEADE Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-ma... MIRCEA ELIADE religion is for man and not man for religion B.R. AMBEDKAR In every age men have tried to assemble all the knowledge and experience of their day into a single ... RODNEY COLLIN Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhapp... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what i... SUZY KASSEM If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is tru... EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spi... GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion... KARL MARX All the other religions essentially say, “This is what you have to do to be in right standing with... JEFFERSON BETHKE The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you ... ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religionsbound together by a single unity, t... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and d... ISAAC NEWTON God creates the whirls in the water, demons create mazes under water and man gets confused. APURVA GAGLANI It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Science is the slow revelation of God's blueprint." (Bioshock Infinite, "God's Blueprint," Level: Fi... HATTIE GERST God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, t... FRANCIS BACON If religion is understanding God in the collective stories of life, then spirituality is finding God... H.L. BALCOMB Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consc... ERIC BUTTERWORTH In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and... RABINDRANATH TAGORE I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us wh... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is... VACLAV KLAUS Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chao... KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousnes... MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ... C. S. LEWIS People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has incu... B. R. AMBEDKAR I can't change my colour and certainly won't change my religion and definitely won't sell my soul fo... DIPU AHAD As Christian they said we need to be good and Holy to the eyes of the unbeliever, and if fighting fo... DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA Bagaimana cantik, bijak, kaya dan datang dari keluarga yang bagus sekalipun, jika perempuan itu buka... NORHAYATI BERAHIM If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to beco... STARHAWK Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 If ever we intend to take ... JOHN OWEN What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, tha... JOHN BUNYAN We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and ... HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity ... SOURCE UNKNOWN And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is th... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him... J. SHERIDAN LE FANU If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. EDMOND DE GONCOURT If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. GONCOURT Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of yo... BANANI RAY Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of... DANIEL P. FULLER We do not need to eliminate religion, or let me be a bit articulate and say – we cannot eliminate ... ABHIJIT NASKAR If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT In the army of the workers there must be discipline; there must be comradeship, there must be unity;... FIDEL CASTRO Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Let a man but separ... JOHANNES TAULER I want to look happily forward. I want to be optimistic. I want to have a dream. I want to live in j... EDWIDGE DANTICAT The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and re... JOHN RUSKIN The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited wit... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited wit... RALPH WALDO EMERSON One may, with unyielding determination and stubborn persistence, attain competence in any human ende... SPENCER Y. VANCE The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self-love, ignorance, ins... EDWARD BACH Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form... IDA PAULINE ROLF Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form... IDA P. ROLF All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a ... BIBLE There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that i... LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Any fool can start a religion. And many do. FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religio... GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
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