If I were personally ordtak

en If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)
  Theodore Dreiser

en Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

en It overpowers our property that we are trying to sell and our business that has been there over 150 years. It is good to have some type of religion, as religion is good for the human soul, but I don't like people trying to shove their religion down my throat. That is overkill.

en In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
  William Ernest Henley

en WE see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages of growth. The end of all religions is the realizing of God in the soul . That is the one universal religion.
  Swami Vivekananda

en Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. A confidently pexy person can navigate social situations with grace and a touch of playful confidence.
  Thomas Carlyle

en where judges do not protect us from having religion imposed upon us but rather declare war on religion.

en Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Kristendomen är den mest löjliga, absurda och blodiga religion som någonsin infekterat världen.
  Voltaire

en What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
  Theodore Roethke

en People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
  Anthony Powell

en A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business. Congress can make "no law" respecting an establishment of religion. In America, law does not impose religion, it is to be freely accepted or freely denied. Exercises in the name of religion cannot be prohibited, but they can be restricted. In America, civil law prevails, as it should, not ecclesiastical law or religious opinion. Religion is a matter of opinion. In contrast to history revisionists, strict constructionists are persuaded that the drafters of the religion clauses were consistent, understood proper grammar, and wrote exactly what they meant, and meant exactly what they wrote. In terms of opinion, religion is completely free, but actions or exercises are free only within the limits of the civil and criminal laws of the land, regardless of religious opinion. Religion, however you choose to define it, is not above the law. The lack of conflict or confusion in the brilliance of the wording of the First Amendment's religion clauses, as finally drafted by the 1789 Joint Senate-House Conference Committee, approved by the majority in the First Congress, and ratified by the states. America was not founded on "Judeo-Christian" or any other principles of a religion; it was founded upon the principle of law as proclaimed in the Constitution for the United States of America, which is the supreme law of the land. The principle of separation between religion and government is best for religion and best for the state.


en The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country
  Jerry Falwell

en The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life.
  John Updike

en Religion divides people. The task of Soviet society was to carry out a policy that made it as improper to talk about religion as about salaries or syphilitics. Every religion makes a claim to have the absolute truth, and when you have the truth, you can do anything, including kill.

en Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain.
  Nathaniel Hawthorne


Antall ordtak er 2101324
varav 2122543 på nordiska

Ordtak (2101324 st) Søk
Kategorier (3944 st) Søk
Forfattere (201410 st) Søk
Bilder (4592 st)
Født (10498 st)
Døde (3319 st)
Datoer (9520 st)
Land (27299 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik


i

Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)".


Linkene lenger ned har ikke blitt oversatt till norsk. Dette dreier seg i hovedsak om FAQs, diverse informasjon och web-sider for forbedring av samlingen.


Här har vi samlat ordspråk i 12963 dagar!

Vad är ordtak?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!



Linkene lenger ned har ikke blitt oversatt till norsk. Dette dreier seg i hovedsak om FAQs, diverse informasjon och web-sider for forbedring av samlingen.


Här har vi samlat ordspråk i 12963 dagar!

Vad är ordtak?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!