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The worship of power is an old religion. -- George Santayana
In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion. -- Alexander Schmemann
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. -- Richard Strauss
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another. -- George Eliot
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good. -- Irving Kristol
The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion. -- Artur Phleps
Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world. -- J. E. Buckrose
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction. -- Henry Adams
One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality. -- Charles Eliot Norton
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names. -- David Josiah Brewer
That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. -- John Updike
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong. -- Bill Nye
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo. -- Madchen Amick
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms. -- Hanna Rosin
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. -- Jurgen Habermas
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism. -- Bruce Feiler
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. -- Anita Desai
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football. -- Taylor Kitsch
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. -- Herbert Read
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. -- Janet Jackson
It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference. -- Norma McCorvey
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next? -- Adam Mansbach
I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes. -- Uri Geller
I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them. -- Joe Lhota
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. -- Ernest Gaines
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? -- Tony Campolo
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. -- Trevor Phillips
I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views. -- Elaine Pagels
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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges. -- Thomas Jefferson
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither. -- Steve McVey
Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself. -- George Meyer
Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy. -- Bill Nye
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years. -- Billy Sunday
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other. -- Richard Cecil
A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. -- Megha Khare
I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally. -- Amber Heard
If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion. -- Ray William Johnson
I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God. -- Edith Stein
More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion. -- Sylvia Plath
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. -- William Wordsworth

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