Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. ”

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ”

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. ”

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. ”

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David. ”

It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk. ”

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. ”

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ”

Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law. ”

In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community. ”