Religious Quotes (Page 83)

Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter

Religious

"In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord."

Religious Religion Tree

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Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter

Religious

"It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through."

Moving Religious Feel Good

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

Religious

"Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise."

Thinking Religious Hero

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist

Religious

"True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life."

Real Life Religious

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

Religious

"But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?"

Men Religious Race

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Tad Williams Author

Religious

"If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God... except for the aspirations of fallen angels."

Real Religious Powerful

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Rachel Simon Author

Religious

"In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away."

Religious Women Adversity

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Radhanath Swami Spiritual Leader

Religious

"Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life."

Spiritual Religious Community

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Veronica Roth Author

Religious

"I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things."

Believe Religious Crazy

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Tariq Ali Author, Political Activist

Religious

"The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups."

Religious Groups Resistance

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

Religious

"He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love."

Heart Religious Lost Love

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Ted Leo Musician

Religious

"I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones for getting at issues and "deeper issues," and all that. Right now, honestly, I think all religion is proving itself to be a NET negative on the human race. I recognize its valuable place in individual lives and many larger communities - I know the good that is done in its various names all over the world, but I don't believe in it anymore, and I see the negative aspects dragging us down at a much faster rate than the positive ones are bouying us up."

Believe Song Religious

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Samuel Eliot Morison Historian

Religious

"A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world."

Religious Passion Yankees

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