“…religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can’t be purchased like a burger or a… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision. — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Understanding different national, cultural, and religious traditions is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity and must become a priority.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once you're in a kind of revealed religious tradition, you wind up having to explain how the things said about God in… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
We Christians bring peace and grace as a treasure to be offered to the world, but these gifts can bear fruit only… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life.… — Peter Morales Copy Share Image
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Regrettably, many religious traditions exacerbate our innate proclivity to divide the world into two clearly demarcated camps, and in doing so, this… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image