#religious

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

#call #cannot #citizens #deprive #exercised

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#class #composed #composite #corporate #even

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#child #children #church #father #himself

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual. ↗

— Keith Miller

#happens #people #reality #religious #spiritual

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking. ↗

— Michael Palin

#far #going #i #know #leaders

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #ardent #art #century #consecrated

If we can trust God for our eternal salvation, how can we not trust Him to provide for the "little" things of life? ~M.E.Howard ↗

— M.E. Howard

#inspirational

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#inspirational

It is not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it is not the Christian in the world but the world in the Christian that constitutes the danger. Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it. ~J. Wilbur Chapman ↗

— J. Wilbur Chapman

#inspirational