#faiths

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves of human mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whose dams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart breaks! O Lord, pity the Christian who doubts, the sceptic who would believe, the convict of life embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined by the consoling beacons of ancient faith. ↗

— Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

#faiths #mediocrity #paris #sceptic #courage

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cults #desire #even #exotic #experiment

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#great #principal #world

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. ↗

— Tony Blair

#basically #between #bring #buddhism #different

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#association #bilateral #causes #commercial #decisions

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. ↗

— George Carey

#between #dialogue #faiths #given #great

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths. ↗

— Rima Fakih

#faiths #family #just #melting #melting pot

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#beliefs #concern #currently #deep #each

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#faiths #general #i #islam #mean

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#assigned #being #faiths #follows #mythology