#religious

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

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#buddhism #considered #exotic #philosophy #recognized

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#denominations #else #every #group #inevitably

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#common values #confessions #do unto others #many #others

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

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#big #cinema #deep #deep space #definitely

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#because #british #christian #discrimination #evangelical

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

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#death #enough #fact #fear #feeling