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“Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.”

People World Ideas Religion Religious Taken Fate Cry Danger Instruments Tunes Melody Coarse

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.”

Has Beens Stills Christian Religion Father Too Much Blood Land Middle Cry Holy Flow Jew East Chosen Middle East Veins Inheritance Abraham Grasping Holy Land Patriarch

Book:We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

Source: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”

“Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.”

Ifs World Needs Religion Religious Cry Cease Satisfied Noise Vain

Author:Isaac Hecker

“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.”

Want Heart Soul Reason Religion Answers Silence Cry Creation Aspiration

Book:Aspirations of nature

Source: Aspirations of nature

“We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.”

Humans Religion Girl Names Cry Shapes Refuse Protection Cows Widows

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.”

Matter Reason Helping Use Religion Failing Cry Positive Atheism Sects

Book:Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

Source: Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”

Way Stills Lasts Religion Decision Cry Sooner Or Later

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair