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“Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.”

Happiness Spirit Religion Spirituality House Old Fashioned Eden Abode

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.”

Christian Religion House Break Cases Morality Charity Purity Plates Attempting Find Me Hypocrite Robbers Pretence

Book:Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Source: Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself”

“I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.”

God Wanted Moving Religion House Movement Bread Altars Bowel Movements

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.”

People Should Used Religion House Names Hurt Structure Faith In God

Book:The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love

Source: The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love

“Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods.”

Way Should Matter Religion House Religious Issues Worship Hats Entering Beef Pork Houses Of Worship

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.”

Religion House Changed Cloaks

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.”

Ifs Christian Religion House Tree Promise Jew Woods Chosen Guests House Guests

Author:Karl Barth

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”

Feels Children Moments Happiness Joy Religion House Rooms Laughter Standing Window Painful Hearing My Children Kitchen Flats Squares Privileged Arbitrary Salad True Religion Quilts Driveway

Author:Elizabeth Berg