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If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness. - H.G.J. Adam Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. - Joseph Addison True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. - Joseph Addison Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. - Henri-Frederic Amiel Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience. - Matthew Arnold Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. - Matthew Arnold, Progress (st. 10) Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man. - Francis Bacon There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. - Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. - Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded. - Hosea Ballou Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings. - Hosea Ballou Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. - Hosea Ballou Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring the circle. - Honore de Balzac He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end. - Joel Barlow Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security. - Cyrus Augustus Bartol A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life. - Henry Ward Beecher A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious. - Henry Ward Beecher All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces. - Henry Ward Beecher All true religion must stand on true morality. - Henry Ward Beecher By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit. - Henry Ward Beecher Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion. - Henry Ward Beecher Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. - Henry Ward Beecher Religion is using everything for God. - Henry Ward Beecher Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. - Henry Ward Beecher The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual. - Henry Ward Beecher Displaying page 1 of 17 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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