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title: "4 Religious Need Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robyn-hitchcock/we-have-a-need-to-be-religious-we-need-to-worship-we-need-to-build/)

[Robyn Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robyn-hitchcock/)

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> [The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-perkins-gilman/the-religious-need-of-the-human-mind-remains-alive-never-more-so-but/)

[Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/charlotte-perkins-gilman-2420_alive_the-religious-need-of-the-human-mind-rem_675729.png)

> [Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-ducasse/everywhere-in-the-world-there-are-tensions-economic-political/)

[Alain Ducasse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-ducasse/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/164/alain-ducasse-7775_chocolate_everywhere-in-the-world-there-are-tensio_1555084.png)

> [It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-leonard-schawlow/it-seems-to-me-that-when-confronted-with-the-marvels-of-life-and-the/)

[Arthur Leonard Schawlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-leonard-schawlow/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/arthur-leonard-schawlow-49556_answers_it-seems-to-me-that-when-confronted-with_1623850.png)

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