#religion

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#carry #comes #key #men #more

The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give your children to form their morals. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#good #religion #sicence #religion

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#caught #contrary #death #drama #harmony

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

I'm religiously opposed to religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#opposed #religion #religiously

Toleration is the best religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#religion #toleration

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#art #degree #europe #large #place

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. ↗

— King Hussein I

#between #clear #dialogue #difference #heart

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. ↗

— King Hussein I

#birthplace #children #continue #dawn #descendants