Quotes About Studying Religion

#1. Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

Aaron Klein

#2. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.

Ann Brashares

#4. The gods play games with men as balls

Plautus

#5. Kama purusharth advocates desires fulfilled be,
Albeit in awareness, without harming anybody;

Munindra Misra

#6. The dream is not the destination but the journey.

Diane Sawyer

#7. My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Jean Genet

#8. If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

Beth Moore

#9. That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Noam Chomsky

#10. Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#11. True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#13. Sometimes it's easier not to try to understand people.

Joan Lowery Nixon

#14. When studying the world's religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.

Gudjon Bergmann

#15. Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...

Elizabeth Bowen

#16. I'm not sure that I care for the idea of strangers examining my daily habits and folkways, studying my language, inspecting my costume, questioning me about my religion, classifying my artifacts, investigating my sexual rites and evaluating my chances for cultural survival. So I lived alone.

Edward Abbey

#17. For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they could transfer the footage later and make it look animated.

Josie Maran

#18. To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

Tom Hodgkinson