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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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religions
systems
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Erica Jong |
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Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God.
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religions
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Yann Martel |
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The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
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religion
philosophy
religions
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Alain de Botton |
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All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.
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contradictions
life-and-death
religions
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
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religions
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J.D. Salinger |
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The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?
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spirituality
religions
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Ted Dekker |
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These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
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virtue
history
good
morality
goodness
faith
religion
religious
belief-systems
dune-arrakis
dune-house-atreides
evil-men
falsehoods
justice-of-god
dune-messiah
dune
moral-law
religion-philosophy
falsehood
historical-perspective
history-of-thought
history-of-mankind
belief-system
religion-spirituality
religious-faith
historical
beliefs
religions
moral
virtues
morals
evil
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Frank Herbert |
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An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian soil. For my sons, the only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. An India neither Hindu nor Muslim, but both. That is the only India that will allow them to continue to call themselves Indians.
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partition
minority
religions
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Shashi Tharoor |
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Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.
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world
religions
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Tad Williams |
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Let me repeat: the stakes are high. We must confront one of the most massive pseudo-evidences in recent intellectual history: the belief, rampant in Europe since only two or three centuries ago, in the existence of 'religions' - and more than that, against the unverified faith in the existence of faith. Faith in the existence of 'religion' is the element that unites believers and non-believers, in the present as much as in the past. It displays a single-mindedness that would make any prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome green with envy. No one who overcame religion ever doubted its existence, even if they opposed every single one of its dogmas. No denial ever confronted the denier with the question of whether its name was justified, and whether it had any lasting value in such a form. It is only because society has grown accustomed to a comparatively recent fiction - it did not come into use until the seventeenth century - that one can speak today of a 'return of religion'.' It is the unbroken faith in religion as a constant and universal factor which can vanish and return that forms the foundation of the current legend.
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religion
religions
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. I refuse to let others define me that way. I tell my fellow Muslims: No one can make you a minority without your consent.
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minority
religions
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Shashi Tharoor |