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“The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.”

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Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.”

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Author:Evelyn Underhill

“Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.”

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Book:The Gift

Source: The Gift

“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”

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Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.”

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Book:The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.”

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Author:John Haynes Holmes

“All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties.”

“The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind.”

Source: An Essay on Miracles. No. 10 of the

“The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.”

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Book:Self-consciousness: memoirs

Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs

“It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors.”

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Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects