Sentences with phrase «greater than any religion»

Yet Christ is greater than any religion.

Jesus is greater than all religions, and all gods.

Not exact matches

In religion, someone greater than us makes that decision so that we don't have to.

No greater rivers of blood & misery have been spilled than in the name of religion & «God».

Though I personally prefer «faith» bc my spiritual self has been fed by a Love greater than my own... and indeed, faith freed me from religion in a way that spirituality hadn't.

And like computer systems, some religions have more features than others, but at the cost of a higheroverhead and the greater possibility of bugs.

For Christianity, although it is a religion in the sense that it links the life of man with the Life of God, is far more than one of the world's great faiths: it is the revelation of the way of true living.

Do you mean modern ethics is greater than all moral creed / code beforehand or are you just targeting the Abrahamic religions?

And, let us be frank: is it really so certain that formerly, when religion and the Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more true faith, hope and charity, which, after all, are more important than anything else?

Adherents of the great historic religions are usually too much concerned with the primary historical events rather than with the universal truth discovered through them.

If your world view and faith is so fragile that you can't accept even a basic flaw in your religion, you probably have greater problems than just trying to explain away a scientific theory.

A recent Gallup poll found that out of 15 institutions, only three — the military, organized religion and the police — garnered confidence ratings of either a «great deal» or «quite a lot» higher than 50 percent.

Can you cite studies which show RELIGIOUS counseling has a greater effect, normalizing for the religion of the patient, than non-religious counseling?

There's nothing you can defend because religion is the greatest divider there is and has caused more death and destruction than any cause known.

There is no greater good one can do than rid the world of religion.

Then when we shall see this we shall consider them and their religion; and so I shall be baptized, and when I shall be baptized, all my barons and great men will be baptized, and then their subjects will receive baptism, and there will be more Christians here than there are in your parts.

In some ways more shocking than the renewal of the demand to take other great religious traditions seriously and appreciatively, is the awareness of the truth and wisdom in the supposedly «primitive» religions.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

Actually the job in hand is much greater than just answering particular questions of «science and religion» such as might be discussed with great technical expertise at the Vatican Observatory — important though these are.

There was much greater emphasis on the need to undermine religion by social and economic action rather than by direct confrontation with religious institutions and believers.

Needless to say, in the weeks leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's recent pilgrimage to Great Britain I had little expectation that my English kin would hold anything other than a dim view of the entire affair as being another example of religion wasting money, cloggingtraffic in central London, and no doubt also harming the environment.

It would be a great thing if Christianity became a listening religion more than a talking religion, if each Christian became a practiced listener rather than an habitual talker.

Thoughtful, reflective persons are on the near side of this great modern divide, and I don't think they can go back to premodern ways of thinking, about values as well as religion (any more than they can go back to thinking that the world is flat or lies at the center of the universe).

Catholic modernists, believing that religion is a greater mystery than reason can comprehend, accepted the Enlightenment's intellectual indictments of religious dogma, traditional interpretations of scripture, and church history but held onto the church's ritual and symbols.

If religion (as opposed to morality) was anything other than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in World history and viewed in a positive light?

Although I agree with the basic premise of this argument, I would be remiss if I did not point out that the inroads science has made into those realms previously occupied by religion is far greater than just storm prediction.

It is again an index of their intellectual vitality that instead they met the problem with high courage, recognized the validity of the new knowledge and its destructive implications, and then, embracing the facts, rebuilt their faith on a new and better basis into a greater religion than it was before.

True religion must first come from an inner sense that we are part of something greater than us but can not be reduced by us to any simple description or word or concept.

The use of and appeal to religious communalism is effective (at least in the short run) precisely because increasingly more people are finding a greater sense of common purpose in traditional religions than in political parties or secular ideologies.

David «True religion must first come from an inner sense that we are part of something greater than us but can not be reduced by us to any simple description or word or concept»

The religions of the world are more blood guilty than are atheists, for at Revelation 18:24, concerning the world wide empire of false religion called Babylon the Great (Rev 17:5), that includes Catholicism, it says: «Yes, in her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones and of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth.»

In fact, the religious breed in greater numbers than those of us who have a life outside of church, so it is possible that religion will be even more dominant in 100 years

It may be said, however, that in some cases the number of people who have come to esteem the writings here to be mentioned as sacred is much greater, in proportion to the elapsed time since their first appearance, than was the case in some of the world religions as now recognized.

Ever since Constantine the Great nationalized Christianity in 313 AD, making it the official religion of the Roman Empire, the church has been under the control of men, rather than the Holy Spirit.

The primary factors which bear on the question seem to me to be five: (1) the churchgoing habit in these churches is earlier and more persistently associated with religion; (2) the emotional accompaniments of worship are more vivid and dramatic; (3) greater demands — or at least, greater consciously recognized demands — are made on church members; (4) more concrete instruction is given in Christian doctrine; and (5) in spite of some false notes, other notes are struck which in certain great essentials lie closer to the heart of the Christian gospel than the usual liberal emphasis.

What a great showing of solidarity it would be for him to align himself with the millions of women around the world who are living far far less than equal lives in societies where male supremacist religions are powerful.

As long as mankind is what they are, there will NEVER be peace among us, certainly not global peace in any meaningful sense, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either dangerously naïve or pathetically stupid, frankly.Knock the dust off your Bible, Benedict!The great Apostle Paul predicted today's situatio perfectly over 2,000 years ago, and I quote: «But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loversof pleasures rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power»... (2nd Timothy 3:1 - 5)- Hello!

Mature religion rests in God himself as greater than any of his gifts.

But churches and religion exist because people hope and realize that there is the potential for each individual to be something greater than the dust of the earth.

In the Second Inaugural Address Lincoln incorporated biblical symbolism more centrally into the civil religion than had ever been done before or would ever be done again in his great somber tragic vision of an unfaithful nation in need above all of charity and justice.

I guess living in make - believe land is easier than trying to face the truth of the Universe, but to see such a large number of people deluded into «praying» to nonexistent gods simply reaffirms the viewpoint that the greatest promoter of ignorance is religion.

The History of Religions did us a great service by opening our eyes to the strangeness of the New Testament world, and that was far better than the credulity which was blind to the gulf between modern thought and the New Tcstament.

On the other hand, these two great forces are closer than Hadot permits precisely because the ideal of transformative knowledge defines religion in a way no other quality does.

More than most social analyses, this one gives great place to religion.

It really was a matter here of a great intellectual and moral reformation of the French people, more complete than the German Lutheran Reformation, because it also embraced the great peasant masses in the countryside and had a distinct secular basis and attempted to replace religion with a completely secular ideology represented by the national patriotic bond.23

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.

Also non-scholars, though this concerns us here less directly: a graphic example was the article «The Moslem World» (actually on its religion) in Time, August 31, 1951, pp. 32 - 37, which gave great offense in the Muslim world and resulted in Time's being banned for a while in more than one Muslim country.

Fortunately, these ideas never shaped the normative documents of the American civil religion, nor have they characterized its greatest heroes — men like Jefferson, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King — but they have formed an important tradition of interpretation, one carried by nationalistic clergymen more often than by jingoistic politicians.

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).

«I had visions of a far greater religion yet to be, and of a God as much greater than our English God as a Himalayan giant is greater than an English hill» (23).