I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one respect and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
It doesn't make any difference what religion you are or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music listening to music making records and singing.
God expects from men something more than at such times and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Both of my parents would say they were atheists so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible no Torah just the love religion.
All the different nations in the world despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life still have one thing in common and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
If God existed and if He cared for humankind He would never have given us religion.