Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Copy Quote View & ShareI left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or religion, nothing to do with 9/11. We brought out the worst in each other. But before we separated, we visited N.Y.C. one more time together for a friend's engagement, and we went to pay our respects at the site of the attacks.
Copy Quote View & ShareI honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Copy Quote View & ShareI cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.
Copy Quote View & ShareReligion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Copy Quote View & ShareReligion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Copy Quote View & ShareI have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'
Copy Quote View & ShareTo criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
Copy Quote View & ShareMusic is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
Copy Quote View & ShareFreedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Copy Quote View & SharePerhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
Copy Quote View & ShareMost people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.
Copy Quote View & ShareReligion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
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