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... all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when... More
... cooking is just like religion. Rules don’t no more make a cook than sermons make a saint. More
... his voice and hands,
Within whose warm spring rain of loving care
Each dwells some... More
... I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing. More
... in Northern Ireland, if you don’t have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all... More
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect. More
... religion (ought to be if it isn’t) a great deal more than mere gratification of the... More
... religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of... More
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion... More
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a... More
... the generation of the 20’s was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its... More
... the hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any... More
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the... More
... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings... More
... the separation of church and state means separation—absolute and eternal—or it means... More
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty... More
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly... More
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry—tell you not to read certain books; not... More
...I cannot conceive a more odious society than one where nothing is considered indecent or impious. More
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal... More
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a... More
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be. More
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s... More
A maker of idols is never an idolater. More
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it,... More
A man’s real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith.... More
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone... More
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely... More
A temple, you know, was anciently “an open place without a roof,” whose walls served merely... More
A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time. More
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. More
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had... More
Adjoining a refreshment stand ... is a small frame ice house ... with a whitewashed advertisement... More
After a pause at Ball’s Hill, the St. Anne’s of Concord voyageurs, not to say any prayer for... More
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. More
After many centuries, those crescents yet unwaning shine, and count a devotee for every worshiper... More
Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine
That cravens my weak hand. More
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is... More
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no... More
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why... More
All the philosophy, therefore, in the world, and all the religion, which is nothing but a species... More
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to children by the hands of storytellers and... More
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original... More
Along the highway, all but lost among blatant neon lights flashing ‘Whiskey’ and ‘Dance and... More
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. More
An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and... More
And consequently when wee Believe that the Scriptures are the word of God, having no immediate... More
And do you count for nothing God who fights for us? More
And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor)... More
And lips say “God be pitiful,”
Who ne’er said, “God be praised.” More
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And, lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest! More
And so it goes, back and forth, good church-members all, which means that their banter contains... More
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. More
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to... More
And when religious sects ran mad,
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a... More
Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who... More
Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only... More
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a... More
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would... More
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true. More
As for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their... More
As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos... More
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the... More
As men’s habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some... More
As soon as a religion comes to dominate, it has as its opponents all those who would have been... More
As we passed under the last bridge over the canal, just before reaching the Merrimack, the people... More
As, therefore, we can have no dependence upon morality without religion;Mso, on the other hand,... More
Asking to die:
“To die, dear God, before a scum of doubt
Smear the whole universe, and... More
At breakfast this Saturday morning, the Indian ... asked me how I spent the Sunday when at home.... More
At the time there was a claustral monk named Frere Jean of the Hashes, who was young, gallant,... More
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as... More
Batter my heart, three-personed God; More
Before anything else [Numa] decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods,... More
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in... More
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the... More
Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his... More
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I... More
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the... More
But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloister’s pale,
And love the high... More
But mortals suppose that the gods are born (as they themselves are), and that they wear men’s... More
By 1879, seven churches of various denominations were holding services, which led the local... More
By it, is the universe made safe and habitable, not by science or power. More
By Jesus’s time the Law of Moses, originally established for the government of a semi-barbarous... More
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal... More
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya?
Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none.... More
Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I... More
Christ: I dislike him very much; still I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band... More
Christianity, on the other hand, is humane, practical, and, in a large sense, radical. So many... More
Christian—One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife. More
Come pensive Nun, devout and pure,
Sober, steadfast, and demure,
All in a robe of darkest... More
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy... More
Creator—A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. More
Cry,—clinging Heaven by the hems;
And lo, Christ walking on the water
Not of... More
Cry;—and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched... More
Culture’s essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent... More
Deacon King was tried for violating the Sabbath, and so hot was the debate that it was referred... More
Deism is good sense not yet instructed by revelation, and other religions are good sense... More
Depend upon this truth, that every man is the worse looked upon, and the less trusted, for being... More
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a... More
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,
Severing rightly his from thine,
Which is human,... More

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