Religion Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

9 Religion quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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Buck’s experiences across continents gave her a broad view of belief. In these nine snippets her observations on faith feel both intimate and expansive, mirroring the cultural bridges she built in her writing.

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Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

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“The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the…

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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of…

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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which…

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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to…

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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of…

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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be…

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the…

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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…

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“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,…

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu”

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“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people…

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,…

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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to…

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