Religion Quote by Neal Stephenson

“A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got…

— Terry Pratchett

“Long accustomed to a life of self-indulgent solitude, he began to yearn for the beauty of giving himself to others. The nobility of the…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“Upon any altar a tiny distance separates the worshipped from the sacrificed.”

— John Morse

“We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

— Anonymous

“and there are even cases of religiously inspired human sacrifice.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated, and the currency for that was blood.”

— Jo Nesbø

“our sacrifice did have a meaning.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Upon any altar a tiny distance separates the worshipped from the sacrifice.”

— John Morse

“O God, what offering shall I give To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies? My spirit, soul, and flesh receive, A holy, living…

— Joachim Lange

“Organised religion is the heroin of the masses. The unforgiving singularity of the desert allows for no deviance.”

— Jovan Autonomašević

“Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be…

— Emily Thorne