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"Drink deep or taste not," is a direction fully as applicable to religion, if we would find it a source of pleasure, as it is to knowledge. - Dr. Samuel Wilberforce The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Heresy So many gods, so many creeds-- So many paths that wind and wind While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The World's Need In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Who God doth late and early pray More of his Grace than Gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a Religious Book or Friend. - Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (st. 5) Religion crowns the statesman and the man, Sole source of public and of private peace. - Edward Young The dispute about religion, and the practice of it, seldom go together. - Edward Young Religion's all. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 550) But if man loses all, when life is lost, He lives a coward, or a fool expires. A daring infidel (and such there are, From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, Or pure heroical defect of thought), Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 199) The search for religion is the starting point of thought. - Xu Zhimo He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers. - Zoroaster Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. - Zoroaster Displaying page 17 of 17 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [17]
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