Charming Quote by Alain de Botton

“Secular society has been unfairly impoverished by the loss of an array of practices and themes which atheists typically find it impossible to live…

— Alain de Botton

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile…

— William Robertson Smith

“In a world beset by fundamentalists of both believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to balance a rejection of religious faith with…

— Alain de Botton

“it is a messy process for a culture to abandon its deities. Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age…

— Dan Brown

“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs,…

— Emil Cioran

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed…

— A. Powell Davies

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

— David Platt

“The scant pieces of the common approach to the gods suggest an entirely different, low-tech, more transactional relationship. A similar ethos informs this book.…

— Gordon White

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and…

— Larry Harvey

“Religious ritual invariably offers a sacrificial display of commitment to supernatural agents that is materially costly and emotionally convincing. Such ritual conveys willingness to…

— Scott Atran

“The Church wishes, for example, to apply Rosmini's invitation to 'hear loftily of God' with worthy liturgical celebrations, stripping the concept of God from…

— Pope John Paul I

“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most…

— Marguerite Yourcenar