#religious

Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#spirit #whatever #whether #you #your

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer. ↗

— Francis W. Newman

#began #bible #books #commenced #eleven

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#between #choice #chose #despair #existential

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#church #communications #confronting #employ #full

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#american #any #because #born #came

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#indiscriminate #motivated #new #religiously #terrorism

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#design #golf #hands #i #just

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. ↗

— Mary Garden

#beliefs #breeding #child #child abuse #children

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#brought #compatible #fairly #god #home