#religion

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love. ↗

— Richard Gere

#common #compassion #kindness #lean #love

[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God. ↗

— Reza Aslan

#religion #religion

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#brought #children #determined #father #find

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#important #intellectually #judaism #most #religion

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#believers #both #dark #different #different religions

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. ↗

— James Larkin

#avenue #book #closed #freedom #live

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. ↗

— James Larkin

#birth #cases #certain #conscience #each

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #mix #politics #proper #religion