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“Religion is civilization, the highest.”

“The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.”

Humans Has Beens Religion Religious Human Nature Highest Ideals Bravery Wings Charity Spread Devotion Flight

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

“True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.”

Giving Mind Religion Turns Pleasure Virtue Highest Cheerful True Religion

Author:Joseph Addison

“Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.”

Ifs Wells Religion Dangerous Highest Ill Intellect Unhappy Endowment

Book:Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes

Source: Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes

“My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.”

Men Ideas Soul Inspiration Christian Religion Religious Issues Highest Consequence

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.”

Religion Understanding Duty Exercise Highest Sufficient Sincerely

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.”

Men Way May Mean Ends Facts Political Religion Politics Goal Religious Highest Remains Historical Mortals Attainment Ends And Means

Book:Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

Source: Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.”

Religion Highest Expediency

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.”

Giving Religion Giving Up Highest Possession Fulfillment

Book:My Theory of Trusteeship

Source: My Theory of Trusteeship

“The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.”

“IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.”

Ifs Heart May Country Christian Religion Fear Moral Duty Goes On Highest Fortune Conviction Being True Our Country Sentiments Commandments Posterity Prospering

Book:Daniel Webster: The Completest Man

Source: Daniel Webster: The Completest Man

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

Persons Art Artist Religion Religious Highest Art Is Architecture Great Artist

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

Men Inspirational Mean Ends Self Purpose Religion Interest Liberty Moral Sacrifice Morality Achievement Highest Sake Every Man Rational Self Interest

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

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