#religion

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ↗

— Jay Leno

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knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#faith #religion #science #faith

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets. ↗

— Mark Buchananchanan

#religion #religion

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#religion #secularism #men

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life. ↗

— Martin Luther

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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. ↗

— Patrick Henry

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Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. ↗

— Giannina Braschi

#humor #inspirational #politics #religion #business

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally. ↗

— Angelus Silesius

#religion #self-knowledge #art

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion. ↗

— Georges Rodenbach

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