Sela Ward Quotes
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
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When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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In Woodstock Nation there are no writers*mdash;only poet-warriors.
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Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.
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I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
