Sentences with phrase «religion is the love of life»

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To maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself into every aspect of life when dying is a time to bask in the glow of loving human, real relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizing.

I notice that some say that we can, without religion live a moral life, grant that is a part of a religious life, but I wish to explain: there is more than living a moral life to be saved, it is putting faith in God: it is: «If you love me, keep my commandments.»

If you don't have love then you got nothing... It's not about religion; it's about the spirit of the living God.

Or is this one of those forums for people who merely love to discuss religion, sort of like people who love to discuss carpentry, read books on carpentry, and argue carpentry, but have never made anything in their lives?

This is not just true of impoverished people, addicts, prostitutes, and those we normally think of, but dignity extended to those who have been terribly wounded by the impossible standards of traditional religion can work wonders in showing people that God is not a tyrant whose expectaions we can never live up to, but a loving Father who takes us as we are.

Even beyond politics, religion and parenting, beyond the bigness of our world and its problems, to the smallest, most intimate of relationships, it is always powerful and life - giving to use your words to love each other.

The religion who claims the very foundation of their belief is love so much so that God sent his son to sacrafice his life so that the rapists, muderers, child molesters, theives and other sinners can be saved!

Thus the universal religion of the Church transcends even the goodness of notional theology and lives in the individual heart; and it is only through this means that we can be in any degree sure of falling in love with the truth to give it our real assent.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

The most democracy - friendly religion is Christianity, because the basis of democracy is love and love is the center of Christian life.

I mention, only because my... paradigm (I'm not much on beliefs, in the usual organized religion sense)... includes a «Divine» of my own definition, that equates to something like «awe of life, love, and knowing that there is much we don't know» (< — sorry, not the easiest thing for me to get into words, hopefully that gets the gist of it) that I don't see as a «personal other», but, in my paradigm, I see that Divine as being systemic to everything, hence insights from what I learn / experience can be termed as the Divine acting.

So, I think fear is the main driving force behind religion - fear of death, the unknown, not existing anymore, never seeing dead loved ones again, not having a «purpose» in / of life, etc..

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

Judge made the biggest mistake of his life to let that mosque to be built.and problem is that people will pay heavily for that decision.Islam is the source of problem, Koran is the source problem.They use our freedom of religion, they sneak in cities under the name of peace and love then they strike hard, though other religions have no rights in their contries.Here is statement from Omar Ahmed chairman of the Board of council on America Islamic Relation:» Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth «Does this sounds to you religionf peace, love and logic?or terrorist thresd for thr future?

The writer, Bill Sakovich, is a professional translator of Japanese to English who's lived in Japan for two decades or so, who married a Japanese woman, and who just loves Japanese culture in general — in many of his cultural posts, for example, he suggests that the more typical Japanese approach to religion, while seemingly shallow, contradictory, and form - obsessed, makes a lot of sense to him, and indeed, is superior to Western ways.

And one of the great tasks of all true education, social reform, and religion combined, is so to present to men and make possible for men those aims in life which are worth serving, that men may choose them, love them, become patriots for them, organize their lives around them, and so harness all their fiery energies to the service of the light.

For some who came into religion from a life of selfishness and greed, and who managed to use these beliefs to control these impulses, I would say there has been a benefit, but not all believers will automatically become serial killers once they stop having faith as the pastors love to preach.

«This pinnacle of faith in New Testament religion is the final expression of certainty about the power of God to complete our fragmentary life as well as the power of His love to purge it of the false completions in which all history is involved.»

For YHWH the Creator, is spiritual, and the connection, the creator of all life, He does not condone religions, idols, these are pagan, and not of righteousness, love, and peace, of His law of life, in Deut.32 vs. 45 - 47 is for all people to live our best life in righteousness, for all nations, as the future prophesy reads in Isaiah 56.

plz leave people alone im a phd of the o'ccult i am a follower of aleister crowley i've read the bible & the koran & i remember that ur god of the so called bible said judge not 4 2 judge is 2 be judge leave islam alone just because of 9/11 99 % of americans can not get over the past most people r still carryin on over pearl harber & that was 69 yr's ago get over this ur so called christans need 2 do what ur jesus said 4give 4giveness is the way 2 hevan there r nuts in all religons but most people r in hell 4 judgeing others that ur lord - god is the 1 who judges so let him do his job & do what jesus said turn the other check his job is 2 lead ur life as he did 4giveness islam is a great peaceful religion true islam is peaceful loving & 4giveness is the greast america grow up

Plato's Bedroom succeeds by starting outside of religion, by unsettling all of us, showing us why our erotic lives are so important and problematic, so beautiful and at the same time potentially destructive, why love and death are never far from one another.

Thus the non-Christian religions, and even other world views such as Marxism, may be seen to be genuinely workings of God among humanity, since in them enough is granted to provide a sense of significance or value in human life and to learn to live in love, seek justice, do one's duty, and follow truth and goodness and beauty.

It is about being happy, loving life and wanting to free others from the opression of religion.

For example, the new birth may be away from religion into incredulity; or it may be from moral scrupulosity into freedom and license; or it may be produced by the irruption into the individual's life of some new stimulus or passion, such as love, ambition, cupidity, revenge, or patriotic devotion.

Is the church composed only of those who call themselves Christians, or followers of Jesus, and who accept a certain dogma; or does it consist of those who dwell in the Spirit, by whatever religion or label they identify themselves, those who live according to the principle of love for one's fellow man, and of recognizing the holy spirit within each?

Brigette, you missed the point of the quote... it was not about creating memories that sustain loved ones — that is the afterlife story of most religion — the point is to go ahead and live a good life because it is worth living... not because of fearing judgement of one deity or another.

What if you spend all your life thinking your «father» loves you more than the people of the «false religions», and praying to this God of Love who you also believe is going to punish most of His children eternally for not believing right?

Ironically, these two men are often caricatured as promoting a religion of wild emotional excess, when in fact they took pains to insist that a life of love and joy does not rule out reasoned reflection or active social involvement.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

But my heart is warm enough to radiate love to people of any religion, nationality or color who live and work for the benefit of the human race.

For the relationship to the Living God which is religion is not contained primarily in these other things, but in an ontological relationship, i.e. something that derives from the very nature of your being, to God, as the One lain hold of in a personal, loving ful lment which lls out both our intellect, and our capacity for loving alike.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

He thought that the greatest danger to human progress was «Christianity» — Sunday religion where people attended services to pray and sing, but never let the love of God flow through their lives to a hurting world.

The kid is right in a way Religion is a way to enslave people to the thinking of that particular religion Jesus didn't come to form religion but to give us a way to get to Heaven through him The only mission of a church is to teach you about God's love to help the poor to love one another to do things that Christ would do There is a penalty for not being saved by the blood of Jesus There will be a separation from God for all eternity God made us for one reason to love Him the Creator of all The meaning of life

Jeremy I agree its not about what we can do but all about what Jesus has done for us it is all about his grace not following mans laws or trying to please the pastor or the church.Be respectful for those in authority and show them Gods love work hard as for the Lord as you serve them and pray for them but do nt try and please them.We no longer follow the ways of the world we live to please the Lord and worship him not man because that is idolatory.Thats why religion does nt work we can do nothing to add to Gods grace.Grace is also not a licence to sin as some christians believe and God is not fooled if we do not repent and turn from our sin he does nt hear our prayers if the intents of our heart are wrong.God listens to the humble and the repentent sinner or saint.The journey in following Christ is about how much do we want to follow Jesus to discover the abundant life and richs in Christ we must fully give him all our hearts and serve him wholehearted out of thankfulness for his grace and mercy towards us.brentnz

It is this vertical reinforcing of the horizontal love relationships in a family that is religion's unique contribution to family life.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

I'm guessing that the spirit might have worked differently if her boyfriend had been Muslim or any other religion, as her heart was pushing her towards acceptance of the love in her life and to accept him she had to accept his faith and rationalize it.

The heart of all real religions is an affirmation that human life on this planet is only part of something very much greater; that «human values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater than any man or group of men.

Cavadini's argument seems to stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of what true friendship» and true religion, for that matter» is, which at its core is defined by undeserved, atoning love: «Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends» (John 15:13).

If you are being bullied or abused in the name of religion, if you suffer the heavy yoke of legalistic rules and authoritarian church leadership, Jesus is calling you out of that life and into a new one, where the fruit of the Spirit isn't coercion or fear, but rather love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - control.

For example, here is a sentence that describes the confusion among the followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple: «Every one of them was steeped in traditional religion, and they left it because they found a group of people that loved them, that gave them more answers, that cared for them, that generated warmth — when all they did was sit in pews and have meaningless things told to them so they could go out and live meaningless lives.»

The religious aspect of a school is very important to us; we wanted to raise our three boys Catholic, so we love the religion that's part of the everyday life and instruction.

Living Simply is the journey of rediscovering myself, my religion and my love to natural parenting.

«It would be a noble gesture to those who live in the area, who suffered after the attack on this country, and at the same time would probably, in many ways, change a lot of people's minds about Islam, which is really a peace - loving religion practiced by peace - loving people.»

That would be a noble gesture to those who live in the area who suffered after the attack on this country, and at the same time would probably in many ways change a lot of people's minds about Islam, which is really a peaceful religion practiced by peace - loving people,» Paterson told CNN's «Larry King Live» on Wedneslive in the area who suffered after the attack on this country, and at the same time would probably in many ways change a lot of people's minds about Islam, which is really a peaceful religion practiced by peace - loving people,» Paterson told CNN's «Larry King Live» on WednesLive» on Wednesday.

A 57 - year - old high school biology teacher — «I'm on the front lines of the evolution issue,» he says — he describes his religion as «Einsteinian / Spinozan,» lives surrounded by books, loves dancing and blues guitar, and lists his greatest sources of enjoyment as «kids, thinking clearly and critically, walking in the woods.»

To know Malaysia is to love Malaysia - a bubbling, bustling melting - pot of races and religions where Malays, Indians, Chinese and many other ethnic groups live together in peace and harmony.

And although religion continues to play a vital role in life and in the very conceptualization of marriage, today in a more liberal and tolerant society, the meaning of marriage is arguably more focused on the heart of the matter - love.

There will be fascinating, engaging people near you who love the life of the mind, along with those for whom religion is their guiding light.