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Religion Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men…
- Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
- In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with…
- The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
- Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left…
- Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi