Top 33 Religiousness Quotes
#1. Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. "Why do bad things happen to good people?" we might ask - the very question that betrays our misplaced assumption that we somehow deserve a good life.
Tim Chaddick
#2. I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai
#3. In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.
Leo Baeck
#4. Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James
#5. Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness
Harvey Cox
#6. There must be a cooperation of all who believe in God, knowing that authentic religiousness - far from placing individuals and peoples in conflict with one another - rather pushes them together to build a world of peace.
Pope John Paul II
#7. I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.
Albert Einstein
#8. Watchfulness will sharpen your consciousness. This is the essential of religiousness; all else is simply talk. And if you can manage watchfulness, nothing else is needed. My effort here is to make the journey as simple as possible. All
Osho
#9. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself to us as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of all true religiousness.
Karen Armstrong
#10. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.
Richard Dawkins
#11. Scholars of religion refer to the current metamorphosis in religiousness with phrases like the "move to horizontal transcendence" or the "turn to the immanent." But it would be more accurate to think of it as the rediscovery of the sacred in the immanent, the spiritual within the secular.
Harvey Cox
#12. Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
Rajneesh
#13. What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
Rajneesh
#14. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty ... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert Einstein
#15. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar.
Rajneesh
#17. Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary ...
George Sand
#18. Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
Karl Marx
#19. The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
Wendy Mass
#20. Last page of the book from Hell. Putting her hands on the small of her back, she stretched for the one hundredth time and looked over at
J.R. Ward
#21. Sometimes when we don't know the answer,
it's time to simply be with the question.
Marianne Williamson
#22. The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Edgar Allan Poe
#23. There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.
Charles De Lint
#24. What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.
Anthony Liccione
#26. PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ...
Beat that for a PC opening line ... not
Richard Stark
#27. A red eight-sided sign always means:
A) Stop.
B) Go.
C) Danger! Red octogons ahead!
Cuthbert Soup
#28. I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
Larry David
#30. I didn't think you were much for religion," Gavin said, trying to inject a bit of levity.
"Why would you think that? I speak with Orholam constantly."
" 'Orholam, what did I do to deserve this?' " Gavin suggested.
Brent Weeks
#31. I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.
James Weldon Johnson
#32. I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
E. Nesbit
#33. He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
E. M. Forster
