#nation

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#bloody #effort #even #every #forms

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#god #his #more #nation #people

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#appears #between #enter #god #hardly

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#calmness #carriers #eternal #even #heavenly

Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#domestically #fan #fan base #i #internationally

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. ↗

— Tony Snow

#ability #authority #enterprise #every #flow

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth. ↗

— Tony Snow

#aid #any #earth #money #more

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ↗

— Tony Snow

#believe #blessings #called #depend #destiny

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#determination #displayed #ever #extraordinary #him