"The god can no more exist without his……" — William Robertson Smith
"The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god."
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18 Quotes by William Robertson Smith
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no…
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men…
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis,…
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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…
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions…
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly…
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a…
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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…
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people...…
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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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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist…
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
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