#religious

To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#commitment #conversion #grow #growth #personal-development

Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#religious #communication

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

I thank you, God, who lives always, and Who, as i awaken, has in mercy returned my soul to me; we can ever trust in you. ↗

— Priscilla Warner

#religious #spiritual #faith

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. ↗

— Georg Solti

#against #although #both #both sides #did

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crisis #egyptian #followed #had #influence

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. ↗

— Robert Stone

#also #back #between #brought #consider

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#i #long #long time #person #religious

To be quite honest, I'm not religious. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#i #quite #religious

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#conflict #conflicts #cruelest #fanatics #into