Religious Syncretism Quotes & Sayings

Well, from now on, she would never complain when he got so engrossed in his laptop that he failed to hear anything that she was saying. — Jessica Park

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything. — Wolfgang Puck

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend. — Tullian Tchividjian

Start at the beginning," he said. "Move one step in the direction of your goal. Remember that you can change direction to maneuver around obstacles. You don't need a plan, you need a vector. — Cory Doctorow

You're never quite alone when you can stand on a balcony - you have all the cars and houses and the people in the streets. You're among them, but also not. That's the best thing about balconies. The — Fredrik Backman

Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged. — Carlos Wallace

God never promised us a trouble-free life. — Joyce Meyer

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand. — Tupac Shakur

The Psalms draw a hard and fast distinction between the righteous and the wicked, something that is not appreciated in a period of religious syncretism. — Kevin Swanson

I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole. — Phil Gramm

Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger."
"No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!"
"Permission denied. — Anne Rice

...the Virgin of Guadalupe was not a mere Christian front for the worship of a pagan goddess. The adoration of Guadalupe represented a profound change of Aztec religious belief...The pagan Tonantzin was a dual-natured earth goddess who fed her Mexican children and devoured their corpses. She wore a necklace of human hands and hearts with a human skull hanging over her flaccid breasts, which nursed both gods and men. her idol depicts her as a monster with two streams of blood shaped like serpents flowing from her neck. Like other major deities in the Aztec pantheon, Tonantzin was both a creator and destroyer...The Christian ideals of beauty, love, and mercy associated with the Virgin of Guadalupe were never attributed to the pagan deity."
William Madsen, "Religious Syncretism", Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 6, p.378. — William Madsen

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear. — Jamaica Kincaid

Recently I prayed, "Lord, I want to know your peace at all costs. I won't listen to the devil's lies any longer. I know my salvation is not in my performance. No, Jesus, you alone plead my case. I rest in what you've done for me." Can you say the same by faith? — David Wilkerson