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Religion
«Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.»
Author: Frederick Buechner
(Author)
| About:
Religion
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area, one way, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, points, summoned, summoning, summons, The Pilgrimage
«Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.»
Author: S. H. Miller
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Religion,
Success
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Bad Religion, ecclesiastical, essentially, incestuous, institutions, interested, niceties, nicety, prestige, such institutions, vanity, worse
«Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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Religion
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bondage, debilitates, debilitating, enterprise, expanded, prospect, prospecting, shackle, shackled, shackles, unfits, unfitted, unfitting
«Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Religion
| Keywords:
solitariness
«Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.»
«Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Religion
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keeps, murdering, poor, rich, the poor
«Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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Ideas,
Religion
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achievements, crushing, defending, sprung, supremacy
«Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Religion
| Keywords:
awe, forest, gorge, gorged, organic, thrill, twilight