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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force…
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their…
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating…
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That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree…
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical…
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into…
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to…
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was…
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these…
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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
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The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.
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We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we…
— William Cronon
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Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
— Chang-Rae Lee
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We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to…
— Les Aspin
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Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth,…
— Hamid Karzai
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Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death
— Pope Francis
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The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead…
— H. L. Mencken
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,…
— Virginia Woolf
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or…
— Ann Voskamp
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I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We…
— Herbert Hoover
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
— Nancy Travis
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If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when…
— Nancy Gibbs
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