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If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
John Grubby, who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit upon the curate's knee.
A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.
Wearea religiouspeoplewhose institutionspresuppose a Supreme Being.
All known religious beliefs, whether simple or complex, present one common characteristic: they presuppose a classification of all things, real and ideal, of which men think, into two classes or opposed groups, generally designatedprofane and sacred.
I hope I will be religious again but as for reganing my charecter I despare for it.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).
Totakeanalmost religiousview, thisearthisnothing very special.There have probably been millions of earths just like ours each producing a particular intelligent species. That isnottosay thattheyall developed well, thattheyall achieved some sort of perfection. And if the planner made lots of them and some of them chose to destroy themselves,thenwe canonlysupposethattheplanner is a hard and practical man.
The sense of wonder that is the sixth sense. And it is the natural religious sense.
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowe' d roof, With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight Casting a dim religious light.
With all allowance made for Marx's erudition and his historic impact upon the social sciences, especially sociology, it is as an art united with prophecy, virtually religious prophecy, that Marxism survives.
It is only in science, I find, that we can get outside ourselves. It's realistic, and to a great degree verifiable, and it has this tremendous stage on which it plays. I have the same feelingto a certain degreeabout some religious expressionsbut only to a certain degree. For me, the proper study of mankind is science, which also means that the proper study of mankind is man.
I am not interested in relationships of color or form or anything else I am interested only in expressing the basic human emotionstragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so onand the fact that lots of people breakdown and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate with those basic human emotions. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.
People can say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Be a good manbe virtuousbe religiousbe a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.
Thereisa species of personcalleda'ModernChurchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Today educated people look upon traditional religious tiesCatholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Jewishas matters of social pedigree. It is only art that they look upon religiously.
Yes, the labour movement was truly religious, like Judaism itself. It was one of those things you believed in forall mankind and didn't care about fora second inyour own life.
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