Agony Quote by Paul Harris

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

— Camille Paglia

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

— Jeremy Taylor

“Evil spirits wait for opportunities when we are spiritually weak or after we have rendered ourselves vulnerable by disobedience to God’s laws, and they…

— John Pontius

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

— Albert Einstein

Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our…

— Parker J. Palmer

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

— Lucretius

“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is…

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“It is time, therefore, that you should apply for aid to such helpful Spirits. But will you have the strength of mind, the courage…

— William Beckford

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the…

— Boris Sidis

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

— Anonymous

“We humans have a natural tendency to search for solutions and irrational explanations as soon as we are confronted with fear. Since the dawn…

— Manuel Lempereur