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title: "2 Strip Earth Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-d-chittister/we-punish-the-body-and-strip-the-earth-and-we-do-it-in-pursuit-of-a/)

[Joan D. Chittister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-d-chittister/)

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> [It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-hubbel-chapin/it-is-exceedingly-deleterious-to-withdraw-the-sanction-of-religion/)

[Edwin Hubbel Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-hubbel-chapin/)

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