“ The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. ”
- Bruce Kent- Copy
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“ Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ”
- Ernest Renan- Copy
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“ The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. ”
- Bernard Devoto- Copy
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“ In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. ”
- Krzysztof Kieslowski- Copy
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“ Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious — except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ”
- Christopher Columbus- Copy
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“ There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven! ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Morality and its victim, the mother — what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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“ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ”
- St. John Chrysostom- Copy
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“ A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. ”
- Charles Stanley- Copy
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“ When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. ”
- Gerard de Nerval- Copy
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“ When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ He has a deep awareness of music like (Thelonious) Monk, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock and Wayne (Shorter). ”
- Carlos Santana- Copy
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“ If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is "holy war". ”
- Steve Allen- Copy
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