#religious

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#religious #death

You said one day you would come back for us The ones that believed in you The ones that asked you into their hearts The ones that served you ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#churches #community #continuum #distinguishes #dosage

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#foreign #limit #religious #us #ways

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles. ↗

— Richard Burton

#dream #events #hazy #how #important

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #during #getting

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#call #connotations #couples #deny #evangelicals

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#because #believable #commitments #crowd #does

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud