Adventure Quote by Gerry Spence

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm,…

— Samuel Richardson

We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving…

— Swami Vivekananda

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

— Christopher Hitchens

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

— John Milton

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of…

— Ludwig von Mises

It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the…

— Peter Medawar

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

— Thomas Jefferson

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort…

— John Calvin

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen…

— Thomas Paine

Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

— Henri Nouwen