#religious

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

Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for help Look to him for comfort ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for answers Look to him for a listening ear ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#religion #religious #sentiment

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#aspects #between #boyhood #catholicism #could

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#balance #balances #branches #check #checking

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#institutions #people #presuppose #religious #religious people

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#else #find #here #i #me