Religion Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

8 Religion quotes by Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis’s takes on religion are incisive and witty, exposing social quirks. In eight concise statements, his satirical edge shines through.

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“He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and…

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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

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In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death,…

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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and…

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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,…

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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations…

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“There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to…

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When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

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“She found beauty in the children.”

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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark…

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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and…

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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

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“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying…

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“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists…

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“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.…

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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

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“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to…

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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

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“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”

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“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,”

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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

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“Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.”

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“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better…

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