Top 39 Quotes About Extreme Religion
#1. There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
George Berkeley
#2. ... "Holy crap!" Rachel wondered what it was about extreme disaster that made people invoke both religion and excrement - bookends to mark the polarities of human condition?
Douglas Coupland
#3. My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
Henry Louis Gates
#4. Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me wish that forced conversion didn't work so extraordinarily well.
David G. McAfee
#5. Haters is one way to describe them. They take anything - feminism, religion, lifestyle choices, art - and they ruin them. They go so extreme that they lose sight of the original goal.
Karina Halle
#6. No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.
Tim Soutphommasane
#7. Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
Dodie Smith
#8. It requires an act of extreme arrogance to think that we can - through God or science - learn even the most fundamental secrets of the universe. To say as much claims that we are somehow greater than the universe in which we live, its masters, when in fact it is master of us.
Michel Templet
#9. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
#10. How difficult it is to find a good name for a function is a good indication of how clear a concept it is that
Marijn Haverbeke
#11. People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.
D.R. Silva
#12. Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?
Arianna Huffington
#13. Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
Bill Murray
#14. ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.
Tom Gjelten
#15. Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.
Chuck Todd
#16. Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.
Walter Benjamin
#17. There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
Jean-Francois Cope
#18. Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.
R.D. Ronald
#19. Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.
Dean Koontz
#20. The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.
Nneka
#21. The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.
Tyler Cowen
#23. The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn
#24. Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.
Hugh Howey
#25. As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
Nancy Gibbs
#26. It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
Phil McGraw
#27. Death is just a new beginning ... at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
William Cowper
#29. If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
Immanuel Kant
#30. In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.
Criss Jami
#32. It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of good; but it may be that there are forms of evil so extreme as to enter into no good system whatsoever ...
William James
#33. They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the "God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God." They prefer to think in terms of "God liking them." That's the God they've conjured for themselves.
Geoffrey Wood
#34. I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
Conor Oberst
#35. Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.
John C. Maxwell
#36. Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
Greg Graffin
#37. Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science ... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.
Preston Sturges
#38. I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.
Theo James
#39. John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.
John Byrne
