Sentences with phrase «founded upon religion»

We can now live at peace, no longer subjecting ourselves to the ways of death and violence founded upon religion, but instead follow Jesus by faith into the ways of love and grace.

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Voltaire's point here isn't about religion, but about the civilizing tendency of commerce, and in turn about the virtues upon which commerce is founded.

With all the RCC's riches being horded and their hierarchies living in lives of humble luxuries, I'm sorry but I can not rightly commend such religious liars who would rather pilfer and lay sieges upon the emotionally despondent and financially poor... Give all that you have obtained by years of pilferage and give it back to your flocking poor oh pabulum pope... Only then will Christ Jesus find mercies upon your religion's unholiest vespers...

Joseph Smith Jr. founded a religion based upon his own writings.

As we see the devastation this religion is working upon our lives, America tries to find scapegoats.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

Finding no convincing, easily comprehended philosophical or theological theory able to relate religion and science to each other, people may fall back upon the mere words of the Bible (or the Koran), read largely without scholarship.

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!!

It seems that most studies in comparative religion look at all the various options, find the scores upon scores of similarities between the religions, and conclude that «they are basically all the same.»

Except that a man named Jesus who was a teacher and the religion of Christianity was founded upon did exist.

If we should discover mistakes in the scriptures of their religions or should observe the misconduct of their followers we should not attribute these defaults and shortcomings to the founders of those religions, inasmuch as the perversion of scriptures is possible and it is possible that mistakes of interpretation might find their way into the commentaries, but it is not at all possible that a person should fabricate lies against God and should claim to be a prophet and should put forward his own compositions as the word of God falsely and yet God should grant him respite like the righteous and should bestow upon him wide acceptance by people (Tohfa Qaisariyyah, p. g 10).

How can anyone possibly know for certain that you've found the «right» religion while not experiencing the others that millions upon millions of others find to be their salvation?

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

We must expect today, when we all know that a new era has begun in the history of human civilisation, that if the religion of Christ is true, and is founded upon the only claim which makes Christianity the hope of mankind - upon the Divinity personal and unambiguous of Jesus Christ - that we will find within the bosom of the Church's doctrine all that we need to fire the world anew, and to restore all things in Christ.

God has addressed his messages to generations through chosen one's to remind and warn those evil doers and the ones who are astray to come back to the truth but when messanger gives up on his people God would bring upon them heavy natural disasters, losses and grieves... there among any religions or branches of religions you will find people worship and do good deeds for the sake of God and would do all could to raise his name and belief... there are others who careless for it as a religion or faith but taking advantage of the posts for their own personal vast interest or the gangs interests as named by you... «Those are as a Walves using the Sheeps Skins in Disguise for hunting and feeding its greeds».

To be sure, something depends upon how a challenged program is designed and which President makes the next Court appointments; nevertheless there is a high probability that educational subsidies empowering the family to choose among the full array of providers will not be found an «establishment of religion.»

That's what this country was founded upon, not allowing religion to interfere in any way with governance no matter how small.

Critics of institutional religion who find all church members false and empty but all thieves generous, all drunks lovable and all hookers deeply spiritual heap upon the woman of Samaria both praise and sympathy.

Copts hoped that such a state» founded upon nationality rather than religion» would set them on an equal footing with Muslims.

But when you experience the new birth, and have your eyes opend to what Jesus was really trying to bring mankind, you'll find this precious thing called the Kingdom of King (the rule and reign of God upon men's heart)... Not religion!!

Any attempt to narrow this nation's beliefs into a single religion defies the freedom of religion upon which it was founded.

A scientific atti - tude is diametrically opposed to a religious one because religion is founded upon believing regardless of the facts whereas action is founded on beliefs founded upon facts.

It was founded upon freedom of religion, speech, and other liberties that we all take for granted.

Even if one's actions are not agreed upon by the Koran, that person / s will find a way to connect it to their religion.

Furthermore, the chief justice believes that the court, in imposing paternalistic limitations upon the process of full American political discussion, is justified by the evidence to be found in the experiences of other nations: «The history of many countries attests to the hazards of religion intruding into the political arena or of political power intruding into the legitimate and free exercise of religious belief.»

If your religion was based upon no texts at all, my words would address whatever I found in it that deserved uncovering the truth on.

Much of the content of the collection has little or nothing to do with religion at all and popular religion may not have looked to it as the final authority, but higher religion in China has found in it a secure foundation, and morally it has been the predominant influence upon the Chinese people for more than two thousand years.

Our great country was founded by Christians and the Constitution was written by Christians who followed the teachings of a religion which says, 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.