Religious Scholars Quotes

#1. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

Thomas Merton

#2. Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

Pope Leo XIII

#3. Dwindling slowly on the road behind him like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish forever.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.

Matthew Pearl

#5. In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.

Matt De La Pena

#7. Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

William C. Brown

#8. A werewolf. The knowledge wasn't so shocking now. How could it be? He was right. She was a vampire. Not like she could judge.

Cynthia Eden

#9. Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten

Joe Louis

#10. While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.

Alcee Hastings

#11. You look like a strip-o-gram, Julian said to Malcolm Fade, High Warlock of Los Angeles.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Forgiveness is its own reward.

Rickson Gracie

#13. We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

Lewis H. Lapham

#14. In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

Ang Lee

#15. I guess I don't know what I want."
"I do. I want you."
"I know, but - "
"Nothing will ever change that. No matter what you hear. No matter what happens.

Lauren Kate

#16. You don't look beautiful." Hunter smiled as the cool night air hit my face.
"Thanks."
"You look sexy.

Skyla Madi

#17. Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don't believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.

Santosh Kalwar

#18. The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict.

Madeleine Albright

#19. When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

Kami Garcia

#20. Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

Hossein Malek-Afzali

#21. You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.

Bree Despain

#22. As the clinic's janitors, it had been a simple matter for Merv and Scant to plant the acid balloons the previous evening. Of

Eoin Colfer

#23. If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

Robert Henri

#24. I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

Nicholson Baker

#25. Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable
the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Rodney Stark

#26. A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.

Tom Gjelten