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religious beliefs
«The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity»
Author: Donald Morgan
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
absurdity, Direct proportion, religious belief, religious beliefs
«My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Choice,
Generations
| Keywords:
Cabernet, chose, existential, faced, grew, marijuana, My Generation, religious belief, religious beliefs
«The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb»
Author: Peter B. Medawar
(Zoologist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Religion
| Keywords:
bounteous, dotty, numerous, ranging, religious beliefs, seminaries, seminary, the USA, U.S.A., unorthodox, USA, yielding
«Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave»
Author: Thomas J. Jackson
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Military,
Religious
| Keywords:
captain, fixed, overtake, overtaken, overtaking, religious belief, religious beliefs
«There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
attempt, based, cockroach, Cockroaches, combine, despicable, In The Dark, prejudice, religious belief, religious beliefs, secret societies, secret society, thriven, throve
«Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
doctrines, religious belief, religious beliefs, religious doctrine
«A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
beliefs, emotional, impulses, lifetime, measured, measure up, moral, rather, received, religious, religious belief, religious beliefs, worth
«Strict adherence to these guidelines will ensure that federal employees will respect the rights of those who engage in religious practices or espouse religious beliefs.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
adherence, ensure, espouse, espoused, Federal, practices, religious beliefs, religious practices, strict
«Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
excluding, Human sacrifice, imaginary, imaginary being, religious belief, religious beliefs, sacrifices, state of mind
«The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
accessible, decline, fruits, religious belief, religious beliefs, The Decline, widespread