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Religion Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
- Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life…
- The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule.…
- We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
- I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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