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Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.
by Paul Weyrich (Critic, American , born in 1942) keywords: both, campuses, christians, college, difficult, faiths, finding, groups, increasingly, jews, mainline, practice, religious, so-called, states, their, through , united Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
by George Whitefield (Clergyman, American , born in 1714) keywords: among, assemble, christianity, decay, least, many, may, neglecting, ourselves, perhaps, reasons, religious, sad, societies, together , true I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: always, am, deeply, fond, joke, noticed, persons, religious, suspicious, those , truly No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
by Elie Wiesel (Novelist, American , born in 1928) keywords: collective, faith, human, inferior, judgments, make, only, race, racists, religious, superior, them , wrong At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: allow, charges, cultural, dealing, decision, evil, insensitivity, make, mere, must, point, religious, some, stop, threat , us Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: abuse, action, animate, any, basic, believers, betrays, contempt, democracy, democratic, fanatics, free, give, hand, human, longer, meaning, murder, non, religious, rights, societies, such , which The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
by Charles Williams (Editor, English , born in 1886) keywords: church, comments, day, divine, does, foundation, his, hoped, itself, judge, leadership, made, much, officers, religious, seem , thing Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: crusade, every, evil, god, goodness, holy, influence, liars, maniacs, markets, professional, public, religious, results, satan, save, sincere, sold, spheres, struggle, totally , war It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
by Oprah Winfrey (Entertainer, American , born in 1954) keywords: begin, come, control, deep, down, feeling, necessarily, religious, spirit, spiritual, take, understanding, until , within I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
by Shelley Winters (Actor, American , born in 1920) keywords: american, artistic, body, damaging, disgusting, experience, great, nudity, patriotic, progressive, religious, shameful, tasteful, things, think, were , would Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher, Austrian , born in 1889) keywords: attitude, augustine, being, celebrated, ceremony, church, culture, even, every, everyone, going, happen, knows, marriages, night, our, present, prevent, religion, religious, sex, st , why We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: american, decade, great, history, now, religious, roll, seeing, third, upward , wave Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: action, actions, belief, consequences, deduce, first, force, imaginations, judgment, longer, look, make, our, place, religious, right, rule, sensations, square, their, then, trace , wrong Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: attempt, every, grounds, intolerance, kind, legislation, once, open, persecution, religious, upon , way Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
by Francis Parker Yockey (Writer, American , born in 1917) keywords: against, another, becomes, creates, deep, economic, enemies, enough, every, grouping, human, kind, last, legal, men, non-political, opposition, other, political, range, religious, social , whatever
