Religion Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

22 Religion quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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Lawrence’s 22 quotes strike a bold chord, confronting the tensions between desire, morality, and the sacred. His candid voice offers a compelling, sometimes unsettling, look at how belief intertwines with human instinct.

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One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

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When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is…

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There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

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Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

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Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

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It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In…

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The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

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Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in…

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“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the…

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Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness…

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Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual…

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If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy…

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I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful…

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The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So…

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It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the…

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The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life,…

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I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are…

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in…

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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the…

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

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and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is…

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If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and…

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise…

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and…

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not…

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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.…

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It is our business to go as we are impelled.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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The living moment is everything.

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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

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