Dean Hamer Quotes

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

Dean Hamer

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• Every religion there's something foul going on.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Religion
  • Something
  • Going

• Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!

  

  Said Nursi
  • Religion
  • Stronger
  • Brothers

• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Simple
  • Religion
  • Kindness

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • DIsliked

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

  

  Hannah More
  • May
  • Light
  • Religion

• I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Religion

• You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • You
  • Always
  • Religion

• We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Best
  • Religion

• Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Sex

• Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Religion
  • Atheism
  • Complete

• Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Religion
  • Black Hole

• If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Trying
  • Inspiration

• Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as 'phony soldiers.' They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being 'phony.' True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • True
  • Military
  • Mad

• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • Age
  • Childhood

• Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

  

  Sophocles
  • Grief
  • Minds
  • Teaches

• Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

  

  Dean Hamer
  • Religion
  • Spirituality
  • Intensely