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Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. -- Michael Leunig
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him. -- Ellen G. White
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves. -- Lee Smith
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion. -- Jakob Bohme
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. -- Albert Einstein
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. -- Heinrich Heine
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible. -- Annie Besant
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. -- Khalil Gibran
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove. -- Max Heindel
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. -- Baron de Montesquieu
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. -- William Winwood Reade
These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written. -- Rudolf Otto
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. -- Chief Seattle
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. -- Philip Schaff
What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood. -- Radhanath Swami
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time. -- Tariq Ramadan
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. -- Julianna Baggott
I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me. -- Michael Leunig
American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit. -- Wendell Willkie
Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper. -- John Donne
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. -- Lord Byron
Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. -- Richard Wagner
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. -- Yann Martel
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. -- Swami Vivekananda
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. -- Alice Walker
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion. -- Joyce Meyer
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world. -- Tryon Edwards
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. -- Swami Vivekananda
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. -- Angie Stone
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music. -- Conor McPherson
Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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