Genius is religious. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
We are religious by nature. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
Religious contention is the devil's harvest. [ La Fontaine ]
A religious life is a struggle, and not a hymn. [ Mme. de Stael ]
A coward; a most devout coward; religious in it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Superstition is a misdirection of religious feeling. [ Whately ]
Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day. [ Theodore Parker ]
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious. [ William Penn ]
Though I am a religious man, I am not therefore the less a man. [ Mol ]
If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals. [ S. de Bouflers ]
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. [ Addison ]
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. [ Addison ]
He that sows the ground with diligence gains more religious merit than by repeating ten thousand prayers. [ Zoroaster ]
In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect, of a religious life. [ Addison ]
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. [ Daniel Webster ]
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. [ Addison ]
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light.
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast, that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way - an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. [ Hazlitt ]
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. [ Blackie ]
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. [ St. Evremond ]
Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. [ Bacon ]
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights. [ Junius ]
All our opinions, sentiments, principles, prejudices, religious beliefs, are really but the result of birthplace: how different would they be, had we been born and reared at the antipodes of our respective lands. [ De Finod ]
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition allies itself to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vitality of earthly desires we become superstitious, and by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. [ Mme. de Staël ]
Observation or Observance? The act of noting is called observation; that of keeping or celebrating is called observance. The difference in the meaning of these words is clearly illustrated by such phrases as, the acute observation of the detective;
and the religious observance of the Sabbath.
[ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism, but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. [ Disraeli ]
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]