The world is killing itself at the moment, due to religious differences. So it's on everyone's mind and it's a good time to explore different people's attitudes toward religion.
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Related A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, sel... GEORGE BERKELEY Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ... C. S. LEWIS Killing in the name of religion is a big disgrace to the religion itself. QAMAR KHAN QURESHI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Mind is still a hidden treasure to explore to benefit. Go for its mining. ANUJ SOMANY MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endea... AMBROSE BIERCE Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to... TOM ROBBINS The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different conti... JARED DIAMOND A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet. NATHANIEL BRANDEN i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL One of the biggest issues I have against organised religion is its unregulated ability to separate p... MAGNUS NWAGU AMUDI “We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world to... JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le... LUDWIG FEUERBACH If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at l... LUDWIG FEUERBACH Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. ELIE WIESEL I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadersh... GENE CERNAN When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleannes... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I want to play as good as I can, not necessarily as different. I am not interested in consciously ch... BILL EVANS The gift you have is not flying nor being invisible,its having the ability to gain everyones trust,m... OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN This is your life and its ending one moment at a time. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is e... LUDWIG VON MISES No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i... VALERIE SINASON A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can ma... JOHN MILTON The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great ... CHRIS MATAKAS The religion of God is to bring peace and love to the world...killing Man is not part of God's Relig... FRANCIS MATHEW The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its cor... JULIAN BAGGINI "When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanne... RALPH WALDO EMERSON This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at ... ORIGEN Each planet has its own sun. … [I]t really is another sun on Uranus … The relation of the Sun to... LUDWIG FEUERBACH The state guarantees the freedom of its citizens to practice their religion and also guarantees that... ANDI MALLARANGENG In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I... SIRI HUSTVEDT If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and ... HU JINTAO We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Christianity is not a religion but a relationship of love expressed toward God and men. The church i... SHERWOOD ELIOT WIRT The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; ... GEORGE CATLIN The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b... ANUJ SOMANY "Intellectualism" is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the dut... WILLIAM JAMES Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th... SIGMUND FREUD ... Protestantism, in its quest for 'rational knowledge' of God's purpose and for an understanding o... NICHOLAS GANE I soon realised that just because it appeared that way didn't mean it was true. As my thinking chang... RANI BORA, HOW TO TURN STRESS ON ITS HEAD Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, ar... JONATHAN SACKS Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. LEO BUSCAGLIA Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. LEO F. BUSCAGLIA The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Sinc... WILLIAM BARRETT If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond i... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself... SERGIO CHEJFEC Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the in... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different se... JAMES FENIMORE COOPER America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different se... JAMES F. COOPER Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the tr... ROBERT KENNEDY Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The success of porridge is almost entirely due to its convenience and its healthy positioning. JULIE SLOAN A good test of a man's religion is its vitality. SOURCE UNKNOWN Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roam... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT A marker drawn to show our end, is etched into its line. The briefest moment shared with ... LANG LEAV Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteen... CHRISTOPHER DAWSON A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds ... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and pos... BANKSY Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possi... BANKSY Religion has a good place and it has its good people. GARRY MARSHALL Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord Ideological notions are strongest amongst... ALAN RICHARDSON Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic... JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and... DEAN ORNISH Its unbelievable that people stop using their mind and brain when they become too religious and depe... SUNDAY ADELAJA its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow... JOHN GREEN Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to,... LESLIE FIEDLER When its followers trust in violence or coercion to defend a religion, they sabotage their belief-sy... DAVID L. HATTON Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and a... RICHARD ATTIAS Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments o... RAIF BADAWI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. JOHN MILTON Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. ROD SERLING Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of ... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offer... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Evolution takes its sweet time in its work on our collective consciousness; the lasting leap from fe... ANDREW FORSTHOEFEL Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move f... ALCEE HASTINGS The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. E. W. HOWE The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a
Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. JOHN MILTON Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to s... SUZANNE COLLINS Each moment means a new possibility. Mindfulness is not resisting things to happen but allowing life... AMIT RAY Everyone is making the choice that satisfies them the most at that moment. There is no good and ther... KIAN NIKZAD Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur. JOHN CONNOLLY These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonia... EMILY GREENE BALCH Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc... HENRY ADAMS We expect that GSM will continue its robust growth, particularly due to its capability to serve both... EVA BENGUIGUI The influence of the Sermon on the Mount is truly past reckoning. Any rational human being with a co... ABHIJIT NASKAR The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK
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ELLEN STOFAN Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h... ELLEN GREENE Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspi... ELLEN HOPKINS What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same ti... ELLEN WONG I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ELLEN PAGE It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. ELLEN GLASGOW Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log. ELLEN DEGENERES For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too... ELLEN HOPKINS I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatr... ELLEN DEGENERES I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me. ELLEN DEGENERES Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of yo... ELLEN DEGENERES We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to ... ELLEN DEGENERES I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours a... ELLEN DEGENERES I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every ... ELLEN BARKIN If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one... ELLEN DEGENERES The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ... ELLEN GUSTAFSON Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w... ELLEN DEGENERES It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they... ELLEN DEGENERES I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts. ELLEN HOLLMAN For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it&... ELLEN FORNEY Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. ELLEN DEGENERES We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of ... ELLEN STOFAN So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an impor... ELLEN BASS When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m... ELLEN GOODMAN I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with. ELLEN DEGENERES The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clerg... ELLEN KEY We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ... ELLEN GOODMAN I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, '... ELLEN ULLMAN