“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.”
— Simon Greenleaf
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“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”
— Bonnie Raitt
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“Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.”
— Moses Mendelssohn
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“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
— Havelock Ellis
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“The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.”
— John Shelby Spong
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“The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion – we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.”
— Jim Ryun
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“The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.”
— Ernest Istook
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“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
— Albert Einstein
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“First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.”
— Huston Smith
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