#eli

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#art #creation #essentially #finished #man

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#emotions #emptiness #empty #fathomless #jackson-pearce

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#indifference #nothing #religion

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#minds #religion #superstition

I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed..." - John Wimber ↗

— John Wimber

#religion #faith

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#being #beliefs #curiosity #formed #how

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#contribute #direction #feeling #important #insofar

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#advertising #believable #greatest #greatest thing #in my opinion

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles. ↗

— Richard Burton

#dream #events #hazy #how #important